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Re: Filters to block and remove copycat-websites from DuckDuckGo, Google and other

#101

Post by sam0x17 »

merpnderp wrote: post #99
sam0x17 wrote: post #91

It's crazy the community has had to come together to create rag-tag tools like this to patch up what is supposed to be a trillion dollar search engine that should be the pinnacle of human civilization. But then I remember it's the same sort of crazy whereby the richest country in the world has homeless people, child hunger, and decaying infrastructure :/

It’s not a lack of resources it’s a lack of will. You can’t force parents to use the food programs. Hell around where I live you can’t stop the parents from stealing from their kids to buy drugs. Send a coat home with a kid on Friday, Monday they show up with no coat.

Political will, yes, but if you think people aren't willing to receive help and all the resources we need are there you are so misguided my friend. We can't even fund student lunches in many states. The primary problem across the board is lack of committing resources. Similarly child allowance tax credit was literally lifting people out of poverty but we don't have the political will to renew it.

People accept help when you give it. This why quite embarrassingly one third of GoFundMe campaigns are to fund medical expenses that wouldn't even have happened with a decent healthcare system. Don't come to me with this argument when literally millions of people are resorting to begging on GoFundMe.

If a child goes home with a coat and comes back without it, they probably have bills and a financial situation at home so dire that they sold the coat.

How is a family of four making $25k/yr supposed to deal with a $120k medical bill when they lack health insurance because this gig economy and the 3 shift jobs they work don't provide it?

Re: Filters to block and remove copycat-websites from DuckDuckGo, Google and other

#102

Post by sam0x17 »

tobr wrote: post #94
sam0x17 wrote: post #91

It's crazy the community has had to come together to create rag-tag tools like this to patch up what is supposed to be a trillion dollar search engine that should be the pinnacle of human civilization. But then I remember it's the same sort of crazy whereby the richest country in the world has homeless people, child hunger, and decaying infrastructure :/

Could you elaborate a little on the similarities you see between SEO spam and child hunger?

In both scenarios you have a massive entity with near-infinite resources acting like it's so underfunded it can't take care of it's own shit.

Re: Filters to block and remove copycat-websites from DuckDuckGo, Google and other

#103

Post by sieabahlpark »

sam0x17 wrote: post #101
merpnderp wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s not a lack of resources it’s a lack of will. You can’t force parents to use the food programs. Hell around where I live you can’t stop the parents from stealing from their kids to buy drugs. Send a coat home with a kid on Friday, Monday they show up with no coat.

Political will, yes, but if you think people aren't willing to receive help and all the resources we need are there you are so misguided my friend. We can't even fund student lunches in many states. The primary problem across the board is lack of committing resources. Similarly child allowance tax credit was literally lifting people out of poverty but we don't have the political will to renew it. People accept help w…

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Re: Filters to block and remove copycat-websites from DuckDuckGo, Google and other

#104

Post by ASalazarMX »

mcfedr wrote: post #21

I never understood why Google isn't blocking these crap results, it's really making my experience of search really bad for a light of my searches

They should give the YouTube audio fingerprint team a shot at it.

But seriously, Google doesn't need to make anything besides bringing back the option to hide certain domains from the results forever. Even if they don't analyze what domains people are hiding, it would dramatically improve the usability.

Re: Filters to block and remove copycat-websites from DuckDuckGo, Google and other

#105

Post by ASalazarMX »

ratww wrote: post #51
slig wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They used to be superb on detecting duplicated content. They also were extremely good at detecting spam/ham. Nowadays it feels like they don't even care anymore and whatever filters they have are either broken or untrained.

Were they? I remember having to manually block myself a lot of those copycat wikipedia/stackoverflow sites back in 2011 or 2012 when they had the domain-blocklist option available for users. When the feature was removed, it all came back. Maybe the problem is just that there are more of those now.

Google removed that option without even trying to spin it as a pro-consumer change. The only problems I can think it brought to Google are clueless users complaining that they can no longer see microsoft.com in their results, and having a negative impact on unethical advertisers.

Re: Filters to block and remove copycat-websites from DuckDuckGo, Google and other

#107

Post by rirze »

dawnerd wrote: post #38

FYI whoever made this, you can create clickable links to import filters. For example: https://subscribe.adblockplus.org/?location=https://raw.gith... Quick edit: I know the domain is ABP but ublock origin picks it up.

Not unless you have both enabled... then ABP picks it up

Re: Filters to block and remove copycat-websites from DuckDuckGo, Google and other

#108

Post by asddubs »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #40
hughrr wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pinterest is one of those sites that really makes me want to strangle someone. It’s just an abhorrent walled garden of other people’s property.

If I were on Pinterest looking up things, fine. But I'm on Google, not trying to find a mirror of what I want, I want what I want. Edit: I have a friend who works there, but not as an engineer haha I'm pretty sure I've told him my woes with pinterest. My wife loves pinterest though. It allows her to come up with amazing design ideas and art ideas.

The main problem is really just that they show up for basically every search, a bunch of times, and when you click through, you can't get to the image without signing up/in

Re: Filters to block and remove copycat-websites from DuckDuckGo, Google and other

#109

Post by merpnderp »

sam0x17 wrote: post #101
merpnderp wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s not a lack of resources it’s a lack of will. You can’t force parents to use the food programs. Hell around where I live you can’t stop the parents from stealing from their kids to buy drugs. Send a coat home with a kid on Friday, Monday they show up with no coat.

Political will, yes, but if you think people aren't willing to receive help and all the resources we need are there you are so misguided my friend. We can't even fund student lunches in many states. The primary problem across the board is lack of committing resources. Similarly child allowance tax credit was literally lifting people out of poverty but we don't have the political will to renew it. People accept help w…

There is no good reason a kid should go hungry in the US. Federal, state, school, charity food programs make it possible for every kid to eat. But a parent who would steal his kids coat to pay his medical bills (your scenario not mine or likely anyone else's), is the kind of parent who doesn't care enough about their kid to sign up and participate in these programs. You should hang out on r/teachers some time and get a glimpse into what teachers are seeing these days.

Re: Filters to block and remove copycat-websites from DuckDuckGo, Google and other

#110

Post by barfingclouds »

sam0x17 wrote: post #91

It's crazy the community has had to come together to create rag-tag tools like this to patch up what is supposed to be a trillion dollar search engine that should be the pinnacle of human civilization. But then I remember it's the same sort of crazy whereby the richest country in the world has homeless people, child hunger, and decaying infrastructure :/

I think these are two completely separate issues and patching them together is a lot more about spinning a narrative than addressing them
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