Why would I trust this extension?
The good thing is it is open source. You can inspect/modify it and install it in developer mode.
Good point
uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results
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#312The great cat and mouse game 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!
Don't forget BlockTube, thanks to it I haven't seen a soyface thumbnail in over a year.
On Android, there is "SmartTubeNext" (or so), you may find it via "STN youtube". It just takes out all the crap from YouTube, but keeps all features (at least the ones I know).
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#313This extension makes Google bearable. No more Quora, Medium, Pinterest, or any of that other stuff.
I'm curious about what other people on HN are blocking. I find myself searching a lot about upcoming video games or Apple products and I was quite sick of seeing all of the same SEOed-to-death clickbait nonsense.
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#314Earlier 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?
> Seriously, how does something so hated continues to exist?
Something hated by billions of nonusers (but not to point of outlawing it) and liked by 25 paying consumers can happily survive as a business.
And Pintereset is actually liked by many people who have user accounts there.
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#315There's a specific extension doing this for w3schools. Congratulations are in order, I guess...? For being so horrible for so long to have an extension created long ago to nuke you, that is. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/remove-w3schools/g...
You can also achieve that with this uBlock filter. Just add the following to "My Filters".
! Hide w3schools from Google search
*://www.w3schools.com/*
google.*##.g:has(a[href*="www.w3schools.com"])Re: uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results
#316Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I wouldn't call it an archive, it's more of a fragment. There's usually no context or link back to the source so it merely exists as evidence that you're not insane.
haha, I like this reply "... evidence that you're not insane" :D
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#317Earlier quoted context omitted.
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%.
Well, considering that a user can't view the image, Pinterest is showing images to Google differently than to the average user. What Pinterest does by hiding the images is specifically against Google's policy. There's no question that Pinterest deliberately went out of their way to create the currently existing paradigm, to suggest their hands are tied and they are somehow a passive victim of Google rather than an ac…
You're seeing the same images that Google does, it's just that these are dynamic pages that change over time. Google might only crawler pinterest.com/cute-cupcakes/ every day, for example. Meanwhile, Pinterest refreshes the content of that page every day, but at a different time than Google crawls it. Boom, you click on the image google showed for "/cute-cupcakes/" and what Pinterest was showing is no longer there to be found. Both Google and Pinterest are misbehaving here. Google is using Pinterest to beef up its image search. Pinterest is using Google to get traffic. But Google won't share any of its precious data with other companies unless they pay for it, so Google doesn't pass anything like a hash or X-ORIGINAL-IMAGE-URL in the referrer headers when you click on a link, so Pinterest's hands are tied, sort of.
Anyway plenty of bad behavior to go around. Both Pinterest or Google could probably solve the issue with better engineering. I put a bit more responsibility on Pinterest, but I'm not giving Google a total pass here either.