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

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Post by ummonk » Thu, Feb 17, 2022, 9:47 PM UTC

hayleox wrote: post #26

Cool idea! I was surprised that Wikipedia mirrors aren't included, as I encounter them constantly and they drive me bonkers. I opened an issue: https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter/issues/2...

Yeah it's really frustrating when I read a poorly sourced Wikipedia article and I'm trying to search for other sources on the claims in the article but all I get is clones of the Wikipedia article.

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

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Post by slig » Thu, Feb 17, 2022, 9:57 PM UTC

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 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.

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

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Post by wanderingmind » Thu, Feb 17, 2022, 10:05 PM UTC

sebazzz wrote: post #23

I use Kagi as a search engine and can just block the site from the search results.

Kagi filters are great for programming, but still evolving for others. I still see a lot of pinterest results. You can block domains by adding them to Kagi blocklist through Settings -> Personalized Results -> Blocked Domains.

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

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Post by xarope » Thu, Feb 17, 2022, 10:08 PM UTC

I've been recently searching for some very specific keyword stuff, and bumping into a lot of sites which seemed like just reformatted copy-n-paste of stackoverflow and various mailing lists, adding zero value and clogging up the top 100 search results.

Now that I see the HUGE number of copycat sites in the stackoverflow_copycats.txt file, I am beginning to understand what's going on.

Thanks!

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

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Post by nhoughto » Thu, Feb 17, 2022, 10:20 PM UTC

Making it this obvious how to set this up made me finally do it, no more junk results (well less junk..). Thanks!

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

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Post by giancarlostoro » Thu, Feb 17, 2022, 10:28 PM UTC

reillyse wrote: post #3

I really don't like these websites and I smash that back button as soon as I realize I've landed on one. That said I'm amazed they are still showing up at the top of google search. My understanding was that that kind of behavior (which I think at least some other people do too) combined with the fact that they are just copying another much higher page ranked website would mean that they are highly unlikely to rank ab…

Reminds me of going to Google Images, and getting sent to Pinterest... which is not where the image is sourced out of.

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

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Post by hughrr » Thu, Feb 17, 2022, 10:37 PM UTC

giancarlostoro wrote: post #36

reillyse wrote: post #3

I really don't like these websites and I smash that back button as soon as I realize I've landed on one. That said I'm amazed they are still showing up at the top of google search. My understanding was that that kind of behavior (which I think at least some other people do too) combined with the fact that they are just copying another much higher page ranked website would mean that they are highly unlikely to rank ab…

Reminds me of going to Google Images, and getting sent to Pinterest... which is not where the image is sourced out of.

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.

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

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Post by dawnerd » Thu, Feb 17, 2022, 10:39 PM UTC

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.

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

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Post by Melatonic » Thu, Feb 17, 2022, 10:40 PM UTC

Anybody know of a way I could bulk import these into NextDNS?

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

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Post by giancarlostoro » Thu, Feb 17, 2022, 10:42 PM UTC

hughrr wrote: post #37

giancarlostoro wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reminds me of going to Google Images, and getting sent to Pinterest... which is not where the image is sourced out of.

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.