Finally I can get rid of those deadend Pinterest results... Edit. And quora
I specifically installed this extension for Quora some time ago.
uBlacklist – Block specific sites from appearing in Google search results
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You’re gaslighting by pretending that calling it a blacklist is ‘random’.
It's not gaslighting at all, the point is that the origin of the name comes from culture not from description. Without the culture backing up the name it would be random, you're getting your order of operations wrong.
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> black means evil and white means divine in popular culture, in video games, etc. Angels are white and demons are black. It's not nearly as black and white (/pun) as you portray. Black is also symbolic of ultimate luxury and sophistication (black limo, black tux, AMEX Black Card, etc.). Nor is white universally considered a good thing either (e.g. whitewashing a bad situation).
That's funny! Because I _never_ hear anyone call it a black limo, or a black tux, though they are usually black, they are not referred to as black.
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I have yet to find any competitor which provides its own results and is even 50% as good as Google's results. Features are nice, but for a search engine results are everything.
A lot of people seem surprisingly happy with Kagi's results but I would like to put my hand up as someone who is, so far, underwhelmed and occasionally frustrated. I realise I've started automatically starting almost all of my searches with the prefix to search via Google instead. I recently reinstalled my desktop OS and I've been happily delaying configuring Kagi as my default browser search. It's slower, sometimes…
HN crowd for all their smartness are as ego-driven and as susceptible to human biases like everyone else.
Most opinions come from an irrational hate towards Google. (It's the nerd equivalent to be edgy/hip among peers by hating something popular).
Then there is sunk cost fallacy, like I pay $10, it must be good. It's not Google, it must be good (never mind that the founders of all these companies are all cut from the same silicon valley cloth and are equally good/evil/shades of grey)
Finally, it's the illusion of "Feel Good factors" -- Privacy, David vs Goliath
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>This might not even have racist origins, but it does reinforce racist ideals fear of the dark equally fits this profile. is that offensive? >why randomly call it a black list if you're not appealing to this culture? do you think the author asked himself: "how can I import a harmful cultural theme into my work today?" or could it be that blacklist and whitelist are the common usage terms for lists of disallowed and a…
No I think it was a cognitive bias, why are you importing blame?
People who so vehemently defend calling something a blacklist instead of a blocklist are very suspicious to me. Similar energy to defending calling a woman female.
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There's too much personal stuff on there for me to be comfortable sharing it as is, and I'm afraid I don't have time to distil the list this weekend either. I'd be happy to create you some ready-made filters for any specific sites or other types of results that you'd like to get rid of though, just let me know!
No, no problem, if it is just for me, I figured that if this can be crowdsourced effectively it would really clean up the search results and that is worth it if enough people start using it. It might even be enough to stick it on github or gitlab and start accepting pull requests against a starter list.
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#248This only applies display:none to the bad sites which means for some queries, your entire search results might be empty
To get full results, you have to use "-site" but sadly Google limits queries to 32 words which means for a 5 word query, you can only "blacklist" up to 27 sites
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#249Alternatively, you could stop using Google and use Kagi ( https://kagi.com ), which offers the same feature. :)
Just tried the first example search "best laptop" and results are not really very useful - usually old content and none of the results showed the publishing dates of the articles. https://kagi.com/search?q=best+laptop
What are the ideal results for “best laptop”?
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Having a button to remove the offending site right from the search results saves quite a bit of time, so while i usually prefer not to have extra extensions, i see a lot of utility here.
Same reason why I still use uMatrix in addition to uBlock even though custom rules in the latter are not any less powerful - user interface matters.
I still think Adblock Plus has superior UI than uBlock Origin, despite hasn't been using it for years.