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

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Exactly! i often wish the umatrix UI was just merged into ublock origin as an optional tool.

Wasn’t it though? Just click the “I’m an advanced user” button in the uBlock Origin options. Then you get the per-domain block details in the uBlock Origin extension button just like uMatrix.

Per domain, but not per feature. Matrix let you specify whether to block images, cookies, script, etc for each domain from the UI.

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

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I've started blocking results using ublock last year after it has been mentioned here, and I've got to the point where I have a script I can use to generate the relevant filters for google/bing and a few other search engines. When I spot any domain which has been squatted by SEO and useless comparison-alike websites I immediately block it. This has brought up the quality of results IMMENSELY. I'm blocking domains on…

The interesting thing is that Google could do this easily if they wanted to, but for some reason they don't. After all, if you can do it as an end user and in a low enough amount of time that it is worth it for you then surely Google can do it, they get to amortize that time across many more users.

They actually used to offer this feature years ago but removed it.

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

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> 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?

Perhaps amortizing really high salaries. $1M/month for a chief metrics officer or something.

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

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Google search is so bad we need blacklists. Really says something

What does it say?

It says that certain sites (cough:pinterest:cough) have totally poisoned the search results and that little has been done to rectify that.

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

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That particular framing only has "power" if we give it. Once you open that can of worms, you will struggle to put it back. Next up we get white, yellow and red. Take all the words out there that use those and imagine what chaos and hatred it'll cause when we start trying to accommodate everyone.

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

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Does it support IE6? (Google does, and it's a browser I enjoy using.)

Why would anyone support a deprecated browser?

Because customers like it and they want to retain or attract those customers. (Basically the same reason any company does anything)

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

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I agree for the simple statement that blacklist and whitelist are not really descriptors but historical terms crafted by some weirdos in the 1600s.

Blocklist and Passlist seem to carry the same number of syllables. So, seems like decent replacements. (Allowlist is a better term but multiple syllables is annoying)

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

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That particular framing only has "power" if we give it. Once you open that can of worms, you will struggle to put it back. Next up we get white, yellow and red. Take all the words out there that use those and imagine what chaos and hatred it'll cause when we start trying to accommodate everyone.

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