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

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Post by pbronez »

franga2000 wrote: post #218
xorcist wrote: post #209

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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.

I'm guessing you haven't tried it. uBlacklist is purpose-built for search filtering, so the UX is far better - It pretty much feels like an official part of Google Search. Next to each result is a single-click block button and the results can be shown/hidden with a button in the top options bar. uBlock gives you all the building blocks, but you have to assemble and manage them yourself. As for trust, that's a more ge…

> Personally, I can't imagine someone would go through this much trouble just to ship a trojan

I agree it’s not very risky, but I can absolutely imagine this.

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

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Post by astura »

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?

The only people who hate Pinterest are computer nerds, which are an extremely tiny minority of the population, and not Pinterest's target user anyways). Everyone else either likes it or doesn't have a strong opinion on it.

Pinterest is very popular in my friend group (which contains zero computer nerds outside of myself).

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

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Post by jhoelzel »

estaseuropano wrote: post #280
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.

yes sure and I agree, but I know a lot more people, who do not use these features at all and even more that do not know, that they even exists.

Look I have nothing against these features, but if you want to find out what I really do not like, usen an OpenWRT router for a day and have it track outgoing dns packages.

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

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Post by sumtechguy »

ThinkBeat wrote: post #240

I miss the days when this was a feature built into Google. It could do all the removal server side. 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 legitima…

winget or chocolatey can help with that. Just keep an eye on the versions served up sometimes they can be a bit old.

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Post by robbedpeter »

jb1991 wrote: post #253
DrSiemer wrote: post #222

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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…

The irony is that the Pinterest users who are putting this nonsense on their profiles are usually uploading copyrighted images to begin with.

Exactly this! If pinterest had a moral leg to stand on I might have some sympathy, but they have no implicit rights to the media they're spamming search results with.

Imagine if Instagram or Facebook tried the seo garbage pinterest is doing to completely take over image search results... they'd get shut down hard, and there would be screaming matches between c class movers and shakers.

I honestly think there's gotta be a kickback or individual level corruption involved, no other site would be allowed to break Google's image search functionality and reputation. It's not like they can't simply downrank and spread out the results. The pinterest situation is fishy af, and it's been years. Google image search used to be useful. Now it's annoying.

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Post by therealmarv »

post_from_work wrote: post #165
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.*"])

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

Pinterest is a hate/love relationship. Sometimes it's like a kind of archive of things which have disappeared on other sites (imagine certain clothes you cannot buy anymore). I actually like that they really make a copy of the content. But of course this is totally non tech related.

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Post by aeyes »

weavie wrote: post #261
lostlogin wrote: post #200

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If you want to feel Pinterest pain, try an image search for something you are tying to make or create, particularly something craft or art related. Every hit will take you somewhere bad in Pinterest land, and somehow not provide the image you want.

I'm not seeing it: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=crochet+ducks&iax=images&ia...

This post is about Google, DDG doesn't rank Pinterest the same way.

https://www.google.com/search?q=crochet+ducks&tbm=isch

Although I have to admit that the amount of Pinterest results for this search term is acceptable (I see 2 in the top 10).

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

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Post by tpetry »

The extension is simply removing the results from the search results. But if the first few pages are results i don't want to see thats not kind of making my life much easier as i just get empty results for the first x ones.

Is there any extension which would add all the sites i want to block to google's exclude filter? So the first page has really only interesting results and not none. Like "some js problem -inurl:code-examples.net -inurl:qastack.com.de [...]"

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