Oh yeah! Adding pinterest to the list now!
uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results
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#22Recently installed this because I'm learning React and there are so many awful results in the first page of Google search for anything related to React. Many sites that are actually scraped from Stack overflow with no reference to the original post, or Medium posts that are paywalled. Bye bye.
Re: uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results
#23Too late to change name to "ublocklist"?
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#24Personal Blocklist is another option on Firefox
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#25First usecase I can think of is blacklisting those code example websites which are polluting Google searches.
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#26This is such a great idea, and a mystery as to why no search engine has dared to put it on their engine. Care to enlighten me?
i suspect google does not support user configurable spam filtering because spam filtering is one of their big value adds. their job is to return relevant and spam free results in a user friendly manner. if they made client side filtering a thing, and it allowed their spam filtering efforts to shrink because "the users can always filter it themselves" then their overall product would suffer. i imagine also it's a matter of internal pride, if they do their job correctly, you shouldn't need it.
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#27This is such a great idea, and a mystery as to why no search engine has dared to put it on their engine. Care to enlighten me?
You can do it without an add-on.
https://www.google.com/search?q=hackernews+-site%3Anews.ycom...
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
google used to have the personal blocklist extension not sure what happened to it...
I think it was a stop gap solution because Google was overrun with spam sites, like Expert Village, before Google did the Panda update. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Panda
Isn't that still an issue? For some of the obscure searches I'm still seeing sites that copy content from github/stackoverflow/reddit
Re: uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results
#29I guess this is useful if you want to filter a number of sites from your results. -site:example.com still works.
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#30This is such a great idea, and a mystery as to why no search engine has dared to put it on their engine. Care to enlighten me?
You can do it without an add-on. https://www.google.com/search?q=hackernews+-site%3Anews.ycom...
They mean no way to have a persistent black list you don’t have to set every search.