"depreference" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2008 October 23, Josh Karlin, Stephanie Forrest, Jennifer Rexford, “Autonomous security for autonomous systems”, in Computer Networks, volume 52, number 15, Amsterdam: Elsevier, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2916",
          "text": "We predict from this experiment that depreferencing short-term routes would have little negative impact in practice, as most affected routes are misconfigured, non-optimal routes discovered during convergence, or attacks.",
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          "ref": "2012 September 18, Benjamin Edwards, Tyler Moore, George Stelle, Steven Hofmeyr, Stephanie Forrest, “Beyond the blacklist: modeling malware spread and the effect of interventions”, in NSPW '12: Proceedings of the 2012 New Security Paradigms Workshop, New York, N.Y.: Association for Computing Machinery, →DOI, page 61",
          "text": "In a related intervention, Google has successfully pushed ad-filled sites down the results by changes to its search-ranking algorithm, suggesting that a similar effort to depreference malware-infected sites is technically feasible.",
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          "ref": "2015 August, Huw Fryer, Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon, Tim Chown, “Malicious web pages: What if hosting providers could actually do something…”, in Computer Law & Security Review, volume 31, number 4, Amsterdam: Elsevier, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 502",
          "text": "In reality though, the circumstances for the scenario of blocking or 'depreferencing' a malicious Web page are different.",
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          "ref": "2023 January 21, Cory Doctorow, “Tiktok's enshittification”, in Pluralistic, archived from the original on 2023-04-19",
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        "To cause something to stop being preferred by a search engine algorithm."
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