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

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

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Post by chupchap »

xahrepap wrote: post #59

I know there’s some serious chicken/egg issue here, and solves a different problem than Google or DDG. but I think what I need is a way to “Like” or “Favorite” a page I’m on (maybe just a bookmark?) and that triggers my personal search indexer which will then index that page. Then maybe optionally “follow” other people’s favorites as part of your own results. Imagine someone crawling Twitter or SoF and you just “foll…

Google tried that with their plus button, but it went away along with Google Plus.

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

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Post by LordDragonfang »

aunty_helen wrote: post #7

I've been using uBlacklist which adds a little block this site button to the google search results. Handy. It is a browser extension and I haven't looked too deeply into it so if that's important to you perhaps have a browse over their repo etc before installing.

If you scroll down on the OP, two of the source lists are actually uBlacklist block lists.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

Quenhus wrote: post #8
ahelwer wrote: post #2

Looks great and much better than my piecemeal efforts, although I recommend linking to a specific commit of all.txt so you aren't opening up your browser's ublock origin filter list to arbitrary remote control. Like: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-...

As the author of the filter, I strongly agree with you. However, I believe it would be too tedious for most people to update the filter "by hand". I think I'm going to add this important security information in the README.

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

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Post by Gigachad »

Buttons840 wrote: post #76
Gigachad wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the end there is no perfect solution because the whole thing is gamed too much. Eventually spam sites will start paying popular users to like their spam page.

This attitude is too defeatist, and I'm not convinced. The OP's suggestion was that people would choose which other "favorite lists" or "indexes" they follow, this implies these are public. Who's going to follow someone who puts a StackOverflow clone filled with ads on their list? And if they do, and it shows in my results, I should be able to discover that someone I'm "following" has been compromised, and I'll unfol…

This would have been said a million times for social media and yet most large personalities are filled with paid sponsorships and no one really cares.

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

#85

Post by alin23 »

Melatonic wrote: post #39

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

NextDNS is for blocking the site when you access it. It won’t hide it from the search engine results.

You still need a browser extension adblocker (uBlock, AdGuard) that can modify the contents of any webpage for this to be effective.

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

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Post by gruez »

ahelwer wrote: post #2

Looks great and much better than my piecemeal efforts, although I recommend linking to a specific commit of all.txt so you aren't opening up your browser's ublock origin filter list to arbitrary remote control. Like: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-...

>so you aren't opening up your browser's ublock origin filter list to arbitrary remote control.

What's the worse that could happen? It seems like ublock is already to treat filter lists as semi-untrusted. There's not much it can do other than block stuff.

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

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Post by amlib »

worik wrote: post #62
brimble wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do they do a good job at getting clickthroughs on Google ads on their site? :-/ Does the rate of ad-clicking on the results page increase if most of the "natural" results are crap? :-(

Don't be evil

>Dont, be evil

For an Alphabet company, they sure don't know where to put the apostrophe

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

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Post by eitland »

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

Part of the problem might have been that Stack Overflow has been busy shooting themselves in both feet for years.

For a while (maybe around 2012 - 2017) or something it felt like it was almost the rule that if you found a really useful question on Stack Overflow it would always be marked as llw quality.

Eventually I guess they were pruned and that might explain a bit of why they rose.

They annoyed mee too though as they often mixed together unrelated questions on the same page and get hits for very specific queries that are unrelated.

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

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Post by wolpoli »

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

Google started adding other quantitive measures for ranking results. That's how some of these crap web sites manage to rank so high.
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