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Re: uBlacklist – Block specific sites from appearing in Google search results

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Post by function_seven »

Normille wrote: post #40
ezekg wrote: post #3

Alternatively, you could stop using Google and use Kagi ( https://kagi.com ), which offers the same feature. :)

...or use Grease/Tamper/Violent- monkey and the excellent Google Hit Hider by Domain[0] --which is free and [in spite of the name] works across all major search engines. I feel like an evangelist for this script as I seem to mention it on an almost monthly basis here. But, as the saying goes "No connection. Just a happy user." PS: as I said last time 'uBlacklist' was promoted here; whatever the merits of your product…

About your PPS: I search from my own machine, from my work laptop, and from my phone. I also use different browsers. Maintaining a user script to “undo” crap results won’t work well in this scenario. Having those settings saved in the search engine itself is really nice!

I’m a paying Kagi user now, and this isn’t my first comment gushing over that product. :)

Re: uBlacklist – Block specific sites from appearing in Google search results

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Post by pbronez »

jacquesm wrote: post #97
krono wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Been using this method to build on my blocklist for a few years, it's quite long by now ;)

Any chance of sharing it?

That’s the ticket. “Many intelligent people go out of their way to silence this site” is EXACTLY the kind of signal I want to pump into my information retrieval system.

Should be possible to crowd source this and publish the result as a list that’s consumed by uBlock origin…

Re: uBlacklist – Block specific sites from appearing in Google search results

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Post by dinkleberg »

Normille wrote: post #40
ezekg wrote: post #3

Alternatively, you could stop using Google and use Kagi ( https://kagi.com ), which offers the same feature. :)

...or use Grease/Tamper/Violent- monkey and the excellent Google Hit Hider by Domain[0] --which is free and [in spite of the name] works across all major search engines. I feel like an evangelist for this script as I seem to mention it on an almost monthly basis here. But, as the saying goes "No connection. Just a happy user." PS: as I said last time 'uBlacklist' was promoted here; whatever the merits of your product…

You’re joking right? We’re on a forum where a good chunk of the people commenting have 6-figure salaries, some on the very high side of that. And some here have a lot more money than that.

$10/mo for something used many times every day is a drop in the bucket for many. It’s not true for all, but for many.

Re: uBlacklist – Block specific sites from appearing in Google search results

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Post by jacquesm »

pbronez wrote: post #103
jacquesm wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any chance of sharing it?

That’s the ticket. “Many intelligent people go out of their way to silence this site” is EXACTLY the kind of signal I want to pump into my information retrieval system. Should be possible to crowd source this and publish the result as a list that’s consumed by uBlock origin…

That would be awesome.

I've found one other immediate and huge improvement to my mood was to remove all graphical elements from the news sites that I visit.

Re: uBlacklist – Block specific sites from appearing in Google search results

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Post by corrral »

dmos62 wrote: post #58
Kuinox wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From their usage panel, I do 50-200 research per day. In 10 days my usage cost is estimated at 11.69$. It look like each query cost 1.25$ to Kagi. I don't want to be conscientious of the cost of my search usage, I fear it will inconsciously reduce my search usage and access to knowledge.

> It look like each query cost 1.25$ to Kagi. Correction: they're saying 80 searches cost them ~1$. >Why does Kagi cost $10/month? >Our proposed price is dictated by the fact that search has a non zero cost. With other search engines, advertisers cover this cost. But it costs us about $1 to process 80 searches. >Someone searching 8 times a day would perform about 240 searches a month, costing us $3. An average Kagi b…

How... do 80 searches cost them a dollar? That seems insanely high unless they're counting fixed costs that'll go down fast (on a per-search basis) as they get more subscribers.

8,000 searches costing a dollar, in actual resource use? OK, maybe. Still seems a little high, but maybe. 80? Are they paying someone to manually look things up for you?

Re: uBlacklist – Block specific sites from appearing in Google search results

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Post by nsilvestri »

Normille wrote: post #40
ezekg wrote: post #3

Alternatively, you could stop using Google and use Kagi ( https://kagi.com ), which offers the same feature. :)

...or use Grease/Tamper/Violent- monkey and the excellent Google Hit Hider by Domain[0] --which is free and [in spite of the name] works across all major search engines. I feel like an evangelist for this script as I seem to mention it on an almost monthly basis here. But, as the saying goes "No connection. Just a happy user." PS: as I said last time 'uBlacklist' was promoted here; whatever the merits of your product…

Paid search means that the service is not incentivized to appeal to advertisers. Disclaimer: happy Kagi subscriber here :)

Re: uBlacklist – Block specific sites from appearing in Google search results

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Post by Xeoncross »

Jedd wrote: post #52
ki_ wrote: post #8

Quoted post unavailable.

With google you can search with type:pdf so that you filter in scientific papers. I'd also suggest that the phrase 'correct information' does suggest you already know what you believe you're looking for (otherwise how would you know what you're reading is incorrect?).

Good recommendation. Scientific papers and tweets is pretty much the source of most large publications articles at this point.

Better to just search PDFs and tweets at this point than read their verbose outrage & clickbait wrappers.

Re: uBlacklist – Block specific sites from appearing in Google search results

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Post by donohoe »

Anyone know a similar extension that works for DuckDuckGo too? (Ideally one extension that covers numerous search engines)

I've been using "Personal Blocklist(not by Google)" for Google search and is pretty good too:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist...

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