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I've seen the terms allowlist and denylist a couple of times now and started adopting those terms in favor of whitelist and blacklist.
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You’re not the only one, but I prefer “blacklist” as it’s indicative of black holes and darkness and badness. So it fits with bad sites I want to block.
Of course my favorite color is black so I’m ok with using terms with different contexts and would condemn anyone trying to associate the negative associations of the color with populations that have dark skin color or use the label “Black.”
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https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist/issues/160
Wow, reading those responses made me not want to use the extension. I'll stick with krono's recommendation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31693787
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You're not the only one, but most people think you're being ridiculous. It has nothing to do with black and white people any more than blackmail does. Or... should that be extortmail?
Same nonsense as the Git `master` panty-twist. Though at least `main` is a real word that makes sense and doesn't make me cringe.
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I think we're far enough removed from the 1660 Stuart Restoration that no one is going to confuse this with the list of regicides of Charles I.
I think that we're not far enough removed from anything to not be mindful of terms that imply that white==good and black==bad.
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#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd argue all Q&A services devolve into madness when they get mainstream. Before Quora we had yahoo answer and before that surely something else. As soon as they get mainstream the quality of question and answer goes down. Those systems only work with well defined constraints either on the subject of the question or the validation of the expertise of the people answering. All of those platform just open the valve wit…
Stackoverflow and it’s dozens of sigs seem fine. What do you think is the exception? Not mainstream? I’d argue it’s good community policing with a carefully Maintained incentive structure.
I think stack exchange's extraordinary resistance to content deterioration is largely due to the moderation atmosphere that I would describe as something akin to a particularly pedantic police state
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#147Alternatively, you could stop using Google and use Kagi ( https://kagi.com ), which offers the same feature. :)
I've tried Kagi a few times, but the results were not better than qwant.com (which is quite comparable to DuckDuckGo and Brave).
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#148Finally I can get rid of those deadend Pinterest results... Edit. And quora
You can use something like this to get rid of their millions of domains.
/.pinterest.\../
/.dreamstime.\../
/.depositphotos.\../
/.gettyimages.\../
and whatever else you (don't) want.
Or get rid of specific TLDs in your search results.
/.\.(porn|casino|xxx|zone)\/(.*)/
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#149I've posted this before, but you can achieve the same with uBlock Origin static filters alone without having to install any additional extensions. For example: To block results from specific domains on Google or DDG: google.*##.g:has(a[href*="thetopsites.com"]) duckduckgo.*##.results > div:has(a[href*="thetopsites.com"]) And it's even possible to target an element's text content with a `:has-text(/regex/)` selector:…
can you do an example for blocking pinterest?
Re: uBlacklist – Block specific sites from appearing in Google search results
#150You can do the same with uBlock Origin filters. But writing them manually is hard.
I use https://letsblock.it/filters to automatically generate lists of sites for the different search engines. It's been working wonderfully.