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

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Post by FourthProtocol »

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

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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?

Using it daily for inspiration for radio controlled cars and trucks I scratch-build from styrene. I also use it for interior design ideas, fashion and if the odd pitcure of a VW T4 van build pops up I tend to save to a collection for when I start my own conversion in the spring.

I love it.

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

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Post by FourthProtocol »

deepstack wrote: post #231
post_from_work wrote: post #165

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

would also add IG and FB to the list.

Sooooo so many hobbies have moved from forums to first Facebook, and the last few years IG. One of my girlfriend's workflows is research on IG, buy on Etsy.

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

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Post by Siira »

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.

1. How do I subscribe to these lists in uBlock?

2. Often, the original website (Github, Stackoverflow) is not present in my search results; in such situations, I prefer seeing the copycats to seeing nothing at all. Wouldn't using these black lists be counterproductive for me then?

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

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Post by stelonix »

dspillett wrote: post #255
AltruisticGapHN wrote: post #245

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> I miss the days when this was a feature built into Google. It could do all the removal server side. Seriously was this ever possible? On Twitch we can block a channel or category. I believe on Twitter you can say "not interested" although it is more obscure what it does. Google really should have a way of saying "not interested in this website, ever". Plus, wouldn't that be useful data for them?

> Seriously was this ever possible? I'm pretty sure google used to take some action on terms of the form "-SomethingIDontWant" (for example "nice picture -pinterest") which was common on search engine that pre-dated it. IIRC it never entirely threw out all results with the negative term in them, but it at least used the negative term against results when assessing their weighting. Maybe it still does, but pinterest h…

Domain blocking was some 10+ years ago, while "-site:pinterest.com" still works. I simply use Unpinterested, an extension that adds -site:pinterest to every image search on Google and have been happily ever after.

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Post by finnchemo »

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Post by rightbyte »

visarga wrote: post #158
rightbyte wrote: post #61

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My feeling is that by blacklisting like 100 sites you get 99% of the SEO spam. In practice it should be a winning battle, since it takes time and money to spam site up in ranking and low effort to blacklist it. I will try this out.

So you're saying Google could clean up the index by simply banning 100 sites?

For my typical querries atleast. I haven't tried yet.

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Post by ashleysmithgpu »

alfu wrote: post #178
ghoomketu wrote: post #133

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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.*"])

I am using these: google.*##.g:has(a[href*=".pinterest.*"]) google.*##a[href*=".pinterest."]:upward(1)

Thank-you so much! It's been a disease on my browser for too long

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

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Post by estaseuropano »

jhoelzel wrote: post #235

I feel like at this point I am in need of an ansible for browsers :D 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 rende…

It would be crazy for Firefox not to advance. Yes they haven't done everything in the most communicative way, but the average user now expects password and bookmarks sync and wr all should be grateful they manage to cater to an audience beyond just the IT crowd - else the web would truly be dead.
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