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

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Post by Dig1t »

barbazoo wrote: post #156
IshKebab wrote: post #153

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This is such a misguided train of logic that I can't quite figure out where it's wrong. Like those maths puzzles that prove 1=0.

What do you mean? Personally I'm trying to avoid any terms that imply that black==bad. Black people, just like other groups of people, experience discrimination and abuse and I'm mindful of that. To me it would be the same as naming something christianlist and muslimlist to denote "good" and "bad", maybe that's a better example. At the end of the day I think my approach is not making the world any worse and possible…

Trying to control other people's language makes them resentful and annoyed by the cause, especially when they very obviously have no ill intent. This does in fact make the world a worse place.

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

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Post by CrendKing »

MauranKilom wrote: post #79
heretogetout wrote: post #29

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I don't think charging per query would work for most folks, for the same reason micropayments to bloggers or what have you won't work: it discourages use. If you know that every time you hit enter on a search query will cost you something, anything, you'll hesitate. You might choose to just use Google and use your data to pay for your search instead.

But that's kind of the point: It always costs Kagi that amount when you do a search (according to their pricing page). If the relationship between user and Kagi is not supposed to be adversarial, then indeed the "price vs value" tradeoff needs to be resolved on the user side. At the moment, I'm either overpaying (because I perform less than $10 worth of queries per month), or the company is losing money on me. And wi…

> I'm either overpaying

The company is aiming to have many users that everyone is overpaying with their $10, so that they make money, thanks to the reduced marginal cost. And the company hopes that the $10 is low enough that enough everyone knows they are overpaying they are still willing.

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

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Post by DreamFlasher »

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

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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…

Yes, please! But I guess we'd need some form of web of trust?

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

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Post by ASalazarMX »

freediver wrote: post #260
ipaddr wrote: post #227

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All searches are logged to your account which is tied to your credit card / kpi.

They are not. See kagi.com/privacy

They promise never ever to share your confidential info, but that promise wouldn't be necessary if they didn't have it in the first place.

I understand they need it for customization and monetization, but search queries are too private to ask for trust.

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

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Post by dopa42365 »

sanketpatrikar wrote: post #185
dopa42365 wrote: post #148

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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)\/(.*)/

Seems like you didn't properly escape some of your asterisks.

Well, tell HN to add a proper code formatting option!

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

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Post by mikewhy »

oofbey wrote: post #247
vorpalhex wrote: post #231

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Yeah, you'll constantly see people use the same old tired jokes here with like 10K karma. I guess it's what this community goes for. Hence why it's started being referred to as "the orange site" and not by name, people don't want to associate themselves with a bunch of borderline racists.

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

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Post by mimimi31 »

freediver wrote: post #261
mimimi31 wrote: post #214

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Thanks for the recommendation. It looks like a great service and I'd love to support them, but as a student I just can't justify $10/month as long as Google with an adblocker is still an okay experience. Credit card being the only payment option is another problem, since I (like most people where I live) only have a debit card, with credit cards usually costing extra. I'll definitely keep an eye on kagi though, hopin…

Kagi accepts debit cards.

It depends on the kind of debit card apparently. What I have is a girocard[1], which doesn't have the required 16 digit card number and CVC. I didn't even know that debit cards can have those. My online payments are usually made via SEPA bank transfers, Giropay[2] or Paypal.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girocard

[2] https://stripe.com/docs/payments/giropay

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

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Post by OnionBlender »

voxl wrote: post #135
zo1 wrote: post #129

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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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How about we stop using colors to categorize human beings? If it offensive to call Chinese people yellow or Aboriginal people red then we should stop calling other people white, black, or brown.

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

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Post by ghostly_s »

thrdbndndn wrote: post #250
account42 wrote: post #48

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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.

uBlock is a great blocker, but an absolutely garbage UI. Luckily the on/off button + 'Element Blocker' context menu entry do most of what I want without having to yet again try to decipher its cryptic icons.

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

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Post by ghostly_s »

Unfortunately the problem I most often encounter with "unwanted" search results is not isolated useless sites but when the results for anything shopping-related are multiple full pages of crappy SEO-spam results.

If anyone has tips for addressing this situation I'd be much obliged.

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