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

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Post by Quenhus »

sixothree wrote: post #300
Quenhus wrote: post #80

As others have said, it can also be done with a uBlock filter. For example, here are my filters that block and remove terrible copycats/translations of StackOverflow https://gist.github.com/quenhus/6bd2c47e5780f726f0c96c0a2ee7... . I hate these copies that somehow manage to be better referenced than StackOverflow.

github-wiki-see.page is a new one I came across today.

I don't know what to do with it. You can't find Github Wiki results on search engine because of Github's robots.txt. The project is thus quite legit. Source: https://github-wiki-see.page/

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

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Post by jjeaff »

ipiz0618 wrote: post #121
dopa42365 wrote: post #55

Some basic filters for stuff that pops up all the time and is never what I'm looking for: /. pinterest. \.. / /. torrent. \.. / /. spankbang. \.. / /. mp3. \.. / /. proxy. \.. / /. block. \.. / /. addiction. \.. / /. recovery. \.. / /. detox. \.. / /. clinic. \.. / /. rehab. \.. / /. rarbg. \.. / /. hydra. \.. / /. 123. \.. / /. stock. \.. / /. linkedin. \.. / /. subtitle. \.. / /. shopify. \.. / /. dreamstime. \.. /…

I'm using .xyz domains for my side projects because they are cheap. Guess they are because they look "spammy" to some.

Interesting thing about .XYZ is that if you try to send someone a link with a .xyz url via SMS it usually just gets quietly spam filtered out by the carriers and never received.

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

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Post by jjeaff »

summerlight wrote: post #130

I always wonder why doesn't Google gives users a personalization option similar to YT's "not interested" which could be used for ranking...? I understand they cannot simply block some website due to antitrust issues, but personalization would be a good rationale and also gives users a good reason to keep their sign-in status.

They probably know that something like that would be games so hard that it would be impossible to filter out the good signal from bad.

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

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Post by 4ec0755f5522 »

politelemon wrote: post #208
zibzab wrote: post #202

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seriously, how does something so hated continues to exist? Is some evil billionaire secretly bankrolling Pinterest as a cruel joke?

Anecdotally, when I've mentioned my hate for Pinterest appearing in search results, several of my coworkers have reacted with surprise. They use it regularly, and mentioned something about pinning interesting results. Our individual minds boggled at each other.

You know, maybe it's really good! I never considered this possibility because of its hostile UX.

Any service that pops up a login and won't let you access any content without logging in I just nope out of and have for many years. Especially user-hostile on mobile (Twitter and Reddit websites work really really hard to force you into using their apps and/or logging in on mobile, much more than on desktop). But maybe we're missing something and Pinterest is super awesome. Maybe I've been using this anti-user UX pattern as a signal for "crapware" but it's not accurate. Maybe fantastic services are hiding behind this pattern.

I'm not gonna sign up to find out but it's interesting to think about.

Or maybe I'll setup a VM for this and finally get FB/Insta/TikTok/Pinterest/Twitter, check em all out, and find out what the rest of humanity has been up to.

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

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Post by IshKebab »

OzyM wrote: post #34
chx wrote: post #33

There's a specific extension doing this for w3schools. Congratulations are in order, I guess...? For being so horrible for so long to have an extension created long ago to nuke you, that is. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/remove-w3schools/g...

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

Much lower quality information and shittier website than MDN yet they somehow outrank them on a ton of queries.

I've pretty much always prefix web related searches with "mdn" these days.

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

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Post by bubblethink »

behnamoh wrote: post #175
Quenhus wrote: post #80

As others have said, it can also be done with a uBlock filter. For example, here are my filters that block and remove terrible copycats/translations of StackOverflow https://gist.github.com/quenhus/6bd2c47e5780f726f0c96c0a2ee7... . I hate these copies that somehow manage to be better referenced than StackOverflow.

I do that to remove Medium websites from my Google search. It's a disgrace to the free internet and the amount of garbage on it is staggering.

Is there a way to filter out sites that use their own domains but are medium websites ?

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

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Post by roofoo12442 »

Currently I'm using Content Farm Remover to do roughly the same thing.

The killer feature would be if you could do something about Google News. The difficulty here is Google News mangles all the links into something like:

https://news.google.com/articles/CBMijwFodHRwczovL3d3dy5wcmV...

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