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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!
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I don't see how MDN is a healthy meal when they document only shit which works exclusively in Chrome and Firefox, while claiming everything else is "deprecated" and ignoring all other browsers. More like synthetic junk food, if you ask me.
Some examples would be useful, otherwise it's hard to tell what situations you're talking about. But looking at a random entry, they list Samsung Internet, Safari, Opera, IE, and others. That doesn't look like ignoring other browsers.
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.
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Its just like reddit with no threading, more annoying site with unblockable ads. >much better than mindlessly watching videos on Instagram or TikTok (which I don't do at all). How can you definitively say that? If I said this thing I never tried is worst than what I do, wouldn't you at least suggest I try it? Good stuff you might really like exists too: https://www.tiktok.com/tag/programmerhumor?lang=en
It's better in the sense that you're not demolishing your attention span with low quality ~30 second videos that usually aren't even funny or entertaining. It requires some level of cognition to read Quora comments, it requires none to sit and watch Tiktok for hours.
Comming from the netscape and the likes, having made many circles around many browsers, I am slowly getting to a point where I simply do not trust any of them anymore. Even Firefox makes moves that I dont like, like social logins and other syncing stuff that, for my personal usecase are completly useless and all I want is a html and javascript renderer.
I know, old dogs barking at the train, but I believe that it's us that are to blame for this. Because you know, we build the things....
Sometimes I wonder if our craze for frameworks are to blame for this and the fact that a sponsored framework will -always- have more cash to spare.
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…
And even if that’s true, why should iorate, a Japanese developer, give a single damn about that? The world is way bigger than the U.S. A few countries’ names can’t even be mentioned without offending certain American sensibilities. Stop exporting this bullshit please.
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.
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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)
Imagine the following scenario: you need an image for an internal presentation, so you don't care about copyright. You find an image in the Google search results that looks promising. You open it, but end up on the dreaded Pinterest site. You'll know for sure that there is no chance on above average quality or size. Hovering over the image will overlay a "join us" message. If you click to image you get a "join us" mo…
I'm sold.
Death to Pinterest
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Some examples would be useful, otherwise it's hard to tell what situations you're talking about. But looking at a random entry, they list Samsung Internet, Safari, Opera, IE, and others. That doesn't look like ignoring other browsers.
Are any of those not WebKit?
I love uBlacklist. However, when I started to "block" scam sites I became acutely aware of just how many there are. It is like playing endless whack a mole.
I recently have had the need download some Windows software and all the top links from Google are scam sites. By that I mean they pretend to look like the legitimate / real site and they can be damn good at it.
No wonder my dad for one has downloaded stuff from those kinda sites.
I started blocking them, but there seemed to be an endless supply.
I am hoping users can work together to create smart blacklists, and there are already some subscription feeds for it.
I do worry about performance as the lists grows.