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Re: uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results

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Post by jart »

superasn wrote: post #134

The great cat and mouse game 1. uBlock - Blocks annoying ads 2. Sponsorblock - Blocks annoying nordvpn, curiositystream, et al 3. uBlacklist - Blocks annoying pinterest, quora, et al Keep the good fight going guys. Kudos!

Every time I accidentally click a Quora search result it makes me so unhappy. I must have missed the memo about Pinterest though. I always liked that site but haven't been on there in a while. I'm reading up on what's wrong and it sounds like a few years ago it started drowning in ads. Then this year they pushed an update that caused half their users to stop using the platform. Is that accurate?

Re: uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results

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Post by userbinator »

I'm less interested in removing results, than I am in getting the ones that I actually want to be in there. Unfortunately the former is a much easier problem than the latter. Recently, it seems the "scroll through irrelevant results and keep paging to get to the good sites" strategy I've been using for literally over two decades has yielded far less success.

Re: uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results

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Post by 2Gkashmiri »

krono wrote: post #3

For a quick and dirty DIY solution, add something like this to your uBlock filter list: google.*##.g:has(a[href*="thetopsites.com"]) duckduckgo.*##.results > div:has(a[href*="thetopsites.com"]) The linked project goes way beyond this though, very neat!

i tried pinterest and did not work for me

google.##.g:has(a[href="pinterest.com"])

google.##.g:has(a[href="*.pinterest.com"])

dunno. i primarily use duck which apparently does not show that many pinterest results and even that one didn't work. i would have to investigate

Re: uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results

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Post by davchana »

d13 wrote: post #68
OzyM wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could someone explain why they're hated? I don't know much about E3, but used them a few times without issue

They’re the best resource for learning web technologies. They’ll tell you in one plain sentence what you need to know, with simple, concrete examples, whereas MDN, on the other hand, is a baroque mess which, after paragraph upon paragraph of rambling legalize will often leave you more confused than when you started.

Exactly. I do coding for hobby, just html, css, js; & in past php too. If I quickly need to find some function to do xyz or a tag or property, or to find the capabilities of some function, its params, w3schools is easy to comprehend than mdn (which very rarely I have been to).

Re: uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results

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Post by aqfamnzc »

driverdan wrote: post #32
ma2rten wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it was a stop gap solution because Google was overrun with spam sites, like Expert Village, before Google did the Panda update. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Panda

It's still a huge problem. Try searching for a product or product category. For example, search for "best winter coat" on Google. Half the sites are low quality affiliate link farms who don't know anything more about the product than what's in their Amazon description.

The URLs usually have a certain smell to them as well. "bestcoat.com", "topreviewsz", "theexpertreport2021.net" etc.

CHECK PRICE ON AMAZON CHECK PRICE ON AMAZON CHECK PRICE ON AMAZON

Re: uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results

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Post by kccqzy »

jart wrote: post #151
superasn wrote: post #134

The great cat and mouse game 1. uBlock - Blocks annoying ads 2. Sponsorblock - Blocks annoying nordvpn, curiositystream, et al 3. uBlacklist - Blocks annoying pinterest, quora, et al Keep the good fight going guys. Kudos!

Every time I accidentally click a Quora search result it makes me so unhappy. I must have missed the memo about Pinterest though. I always liked that site but haven't been on there in a while. I'm reading up on what's wrong and it sounds like a few years ago it started drowning in ads. Then this year they pushed an update that caused half their users to stop using the platform. Is that accurate?

What's wrong with Quora? Now I don't use Quora for any serious source of information, but it's just a site with lots of fun anecdotes. Reading these anecdotes isn't a bad way to pass the time; it's IMO much better than mindlessly watching videos on Instagram or TikTok (which I don't do at all).

Re: uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results

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Post by visarga »

rightbyte wrote: post #61
silisili wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Kinda - not necessarily on/blocked by default, but a curated, maintained global list available to use, if that makes sense.

My feeling is that by blacklisting like 100 sites you get 99% of the SEO spam. In practice it should be a winning battle, since it takes time and money to spam site up in ranking and low effort to blacklist it. I will try this out.

So you're saying Google could clean up the index by simply banning 100 sites?

Re: uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results

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Post by badsoftware »

dgemm wrote: post #87
Gigachad wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would they do that? The extension implements blacklisting domains.

Part of an industry wide effort to replace the term "blacklist" due to connotations.

I believe this is also a cultural/political effort to create problems where they don’t exist.

Re: uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results

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Post by _hiji »

superasn wrote: post #134

The great cat and mouse game 1. uBlock - Blocks annoying ads 2. Sponsorblock - Blocks annoying nordvpn, curiositystream, et al 3. uBlacklist - Blocks annoying pinterest, quora, et al Keep the good fight going guys. Kudos!

dont forget blocknyt.com for twitter. i wish they'd make it extensible so we could subscribe to a variety of blocklists
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