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Ah yes the notoriously spammy .dev TLD. I guarantee you that .com, .net, and .org have far more spam and low quality sites than this stupid list.
Yeah, some people are morons and stuck in the original "If it's not one of the old domains you're not a 'real' website" mindset. Kinda makes me glad to know he won't accidentally stumble onto Flutter though, since bother their package manager and main site are .dev :P.
As others have said, it can also be done with a uBlock filter. For example, here are my filters that block and remove terrible copycats/translations of StackOverflow https://gist.github.com/quenhus/6bd2c47e5780f726f0c96c0a2ee7... . I hate these copies that somehow manage to be better referenced than StackOverflow.
google.*##.g:has(a[href*="pinterest.*"])1. uBlock - Blocks annoying ads
2. Sponsorblock - Blocks annoying nordvpn, curiositystream, et al
3. uBlacklist - Blocks annoying pinterest, quora, et al
Keep the good fight going guys. Kudos!
I always wonder why doesn't Google gives users a personalization option similar to YT's "not interested" which could be used for ranking...? I understand they cannot simply block some website due to antitrust issues, but personalization would be a good rationale and also gives users a good reason to keep their sign-in status.
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> given Pinterest paints inside the lines. Do they? They advertise images in their search results that you aren't allowed to see when you follow the link. It's some of the most paradigmatic black-hat behavior there is.
You can blame Google for that, how on earth is that Pinterest's fault? Google is the one choosing an arbitrary thumbnail out of hundreds of images to represent "pinterest.com/cake-pops". Then Google uses that thumbnail to refer people to Pinterest, but doesn't tell Pinterest what thumbnail they used. Pinterest's hands are tied here. This is Google's fault, 100%.
It may well be the case that this is Google's fault and they are a malicious actor here as well as Pinterest, but Pinterest is blatantly malicious and does not draw within the lines.
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Ah yes the notoriously spammy .dev TLD. I guarantee you that .com, .net, and .org have far more spam and low quality sites than this stupid list.
Yeah, some people are morons and stuck in the original "If it's not one of the old domains you're not a 'real' website" mindset. Kinda makes me glad to know he won't accidentally stumble onto Flutter though, since bother their package manager and main site are .dev :P.
As others have said, it can also be done with a uBlock filter. For example, here are my filters that block and remove terrible copycats/translations of StackOverflow https://gist.github.com/quenhus/6bd2c47e5780f726f0c96c0a2ee7... . I hate these copies that somehow manage to be better referenced than StackOverflow.
This is amazing. I tried extending this to remove all pinterest results too (the real cancer of the internet) but the filter doesn't seem to be working.. Any tips? google.*##.g:has(a[href*="pinterest.*"])
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Pinterest is not getting one more traffic from me.
As someone who blogs sometimes, Pinterest has been a huge pain-point in finding images and attributing them properly.
It was even sometimes impossible for me to determine the original source of an image and to find out whether or not it could be used in my blog for free.
It was a huge pain for downloading images as well. (I have always downloaded pictures for personal and home use only, never for commercial reason.)
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> it saves having another browser extension to configure! Not just that, it saves having another browser extension to trust . A large number of the sites I get to are through search results. A malicious extension that has access to modify search results could do a lot of damage. Hell, I know people who get to their bank and other sensitive sites by typing the name of the institution into Google, rather than typing th…
This is why I always do banking/TDAM in Firefox safe mode. I'd rather be tracked (or even hacked by some malicious script through the bank's fault) by my bank, than hacked by an extension I installed, because I wouldn't have much liability in the former but I would in the prior.