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Re: uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results

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Post by skocznymroczny »

Debug_Overload wrote: post #67
dopa42365 wrote: post #55

Some basic filters for stuff that pops up all the time and is never what I'm looking for: /. pinterest. \.. / /. torrent. \.. / /. spankbang. \.. / /. mp3. \.. / /. proxy. \.. / /. block. \.. / /. addiction. \.. / /. recovery. \.. / /. detox. \.. / /. clinic. \.. / /. rehab. \.. / /. rarbg. \.. / /. hydra. \.. / /. 123. \.. / /. stock. \.. / /. linkedin. \.. / /. subtitle. \.. / /. shopify. \.. / /. dreamstime. \.. /…

I'm not sure how spankbang got on that list but it's hilarious. Is it really a common problem like pinterest and similar stuff on that list?

At the moment it's one of my favorite websites of "this type", because they haven't done the content purge yet like the main sites did.

Re: uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results

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Post by zibzab »

post_from_work wrote: post #165
ghoomketu wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.*"])

Nuking Pinterest off of the Internet is what immediately came to my mind as well!

Seriously, how does something so hated continues to exist?

Is some evil billionaire secretly bankrolling Pinterest as a cruel joke?

Re: uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results

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Post by rightly »

neilv wrote: post #88
pbreit wrote: post #23

Too late to change name to "ublocklist"?

Non-creative name: "SearchDenylist" Reasons: * I think of the "u" prefix in this narrow technology niche (browser-based filtering) as almost a trademark of the great project now called "uBlock Origin". * "Blacklist" isn't a term to be making new uses of in the US. (Given ongoing history of racial injustices, and how the terms "blacklist" and "whitelist" have been used in our field to designate "bad" and "good", respe…

Nobody gives a fuck

Re: uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results

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Post by ItsBob »

ghoomketu wrote: post #133
Quenhus wrote: post #80

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.*"])

Ok, genuine question - Why do people hate Pinterest so much? I have no feelings towards it either way (I don't have an account on it but I have viewed some things over time)

Re: uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results

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Post by rightly »

dgemm wrote: post #87
Gigachad wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would they do that? The extension implements blacklisting domains.

Part of an industry wide effort to replace the term "blacklist" due to connotations.

I am part of an industry wide efforts to add more of this term.

Re: uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results

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Post by iamphilrae »

ItsBob wrote: post #204
ghoomketu wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.*"])

Ok, genuine question - Why do people hate Pinterest so much? I have no feelings towards it either way (I don't have an account on it but I have viewed some things over time)

My hatred is due to the fact that if you image search for something, e.g. a product, click on what you think is the product’s site, however you end up on someone’s Pinterest board. From there, there’s no way to get back to the original site. And the biggest annoyance is that the search results always seem to rank better than originals.

Re: uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results

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Post by bencollier49 »

behnamoh wrote: post #175
Quenhus wrote: post #80

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.

I do that to remove Medium websites from my Google search. It's a disgrace to the free internet and the amount of garbage on it is staggering.

Thank you. Came here to say the same thing. It's a blight on the Web.

Re: uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results

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Post by politelemon »

zibzab wrote: post #202
post_from_work wrote: post #165

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nuking Pinterest off of the Internet is what immediately came to my mind as well!

Seriously, how does something so hated continues to exist? Is some evil billionaire secretly bankrolling Pinterest as a cruel joke?

Anecdotally, when I've mentioned my hate for Pinterest appearing in search results, several of my coworkers have reacted with surprise. They use it regularly, and mentioned something about pinning interesting results. Our individual minds boggled at each other.

Re: uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results

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Post by xorcist »

franga2000 wrote: post #198
RileyJames wrote: post #147

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Would you submit this to an the awesome list I’ve made for uBlacklist? I love uBlacklist, but I felt the community aspect of it was missing, and vital to its success. I felt bootstrapping lists and GitHub repos was the most instantaneous way to enable a community. I comment each time it hits HN, but beyond that haven’t seen much uptake / contribution towards building blacklists. https://github.com/rjaus/awesome-ublac…

And awesome list is a great idea! I have a huge blocklist of those fake machine-translated e-commerce sites that just redirect to AliExpress. I'll try to remember to submit it later today

Isn't this equally possible with a uBlock blocklist?

I already trust gorhill, and a bunch of Firefox maintainers, with my life and my passwords.

Re: uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results

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Post by reyqn »

bobsmooth wrote: post #29

I guess this is useful if you want to filter a number of sites from your results. -site:example.com still works.

Yeah it seems smarter to ask a result without the websites you don't want to see than to filter them out after.
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