Pinterest. Fuck pinterest.
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Iβd add Quora to that list of fuck you websites
They added Quora+ subscription service now, you have to pay to see the actually correct answers. Free only gets you wrong answers.
The worst, hey we noticed you got a really hard to solve problem, well we got the answer right here, but weβre gonna dim it till you make an account, oh sorry thatβs not really the answer thanks for the account sucker!
I made the mistake of making an account one time. Unsubscribing from all the shit they email is an unbelievably annoying task.
It's the worst. There's even a browser extension to blacklist them: unpinterested.
I had to get that because I got so tired of having to put minus pinterest in all my image searches.
I don't explicitly block any, but I usually avoid clicking on pinterest and quora links. From experience, I never get what I'm looking for even without the annoying user interface.
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It's tough because I almost feel like I need a whitelist at this point. 90% of the first page of Google results usually read like AI-generated fluff that doesn't actually even answer my question. There are a handful of websites I trust now to give me real information and not just clickbait SEO nonsense.
I'm at the point where I add "reddit" to the end of every search just to try and find something that was written by a real person. Maybe someday I can start adding "lemmy" instead.
Seriously, 10 years ago, the best way to find any info on a video game was to go on gamefaqs, ign guides, the steam community or a dedicated wiki.
Nowadays, it objectively still is the exact same, but google will give results for NONE OF THEM unless if you specify. There's a truckload of those SEO garbage.
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Glad to see Quora as a common blocked site.
It's fascinating seeing a answer about physics being the highest rated by a guy who "loves cheeses" with a degree in "Deez Nuts"
But where else can I pretend to be the CEO of Ford, Chief of Staff for the Obama Administration, President of ACLU, and King of the European Union?
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Hey, I wouldn't have passed first year calculus without the help of a physics forums user named DickHandy
This website is so bad.. it wants to make an account so badly lol
codegrepper.com and all its shitty clones.
All they do is scrape websites like stack overflow and github issues and present them in a more shitty way, and they somehow manage to get ranked pretty high.
https://www.grepper.com/images/reviews/review2.png "Review" on their own page. So obviously fake (alignment is off and it doesn't follow fonts?) Plus, they misspelled their own name. This has got to be a joke
Edit: It may not be fake but i hate this website so i'd like to imagine it is
Here are a few examples: https://letsblock.it/filters/search-results
Never had heard of this site. I just kept skipping over but thus makes it so easy that I'm getting onboard!
This is great!
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I've been using a Firefox extension instead that has fairly good filters by default, because I kept getting crap results when looking at technical questions (ie. landing on over-simplified examples without details instead of official documentation).
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublacklist/
They publish some subscription lists of things blocked that you can chose from: splogs of GitHub/Stack overflow, Pinterest... And then you can add custom blocks directly from your results list (Quora...). It can be a nice point to start with to use their filter even out of the extension imo.
The kagi search engine allows you block sites, they have a leader board of what the tops ones are here: https://kagi.com/stats?stat=leaderboard pintrest is getting a fucking.
Kagi users HATE pinterest.
Perfectly reasonable.
I never bothered actually creating blacklists for my browser. Mentally though, those weird websites that only rehost stack overflow replies.
Reddit. I blocked the domain when the blackout started and havenβt been back.
Same. Even if I did want to find answers there, so many people have deleted comments that it can be useless at times.
I want to so bad but i end up finding answers there so often and using it for human responses i can't. Damn You reddit.
Geeksforgeeks.org
The kicker was the aggressive popups to login and share your location.
At least w3schools made a effort to improve.
I typically Blocklist it. But when I'm coaching juniors and see them search, I remember how annoyed I am with that site.
geeksforgeeks
I've just killed the popup with uBlock and it's pretty usable, was driving me mad before though, fuck that shit
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Forbes, Pinterest, Quora, Chegg, and a few others that are basically clones of the above.
Also any website that prompts me to pay a subscription to keep reading after the first paragraph; and any website that requires me to disable my ad blocker (unless I can fix it by manually ad blocking their anti-ad-blocker message/screen filter, which always feels great lol).
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Pinterest. It is the sole reason I use the Google Hit Hider script.
I don't blacklist on the ip level but I do use a userscript to blacklist domains from showing up in my search results
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/1682-google-hit-hider-by-domain-search-filter-block-sites
These are the domains currently blocked
9to5google.com
about.fb.com
about.instagram.com
business.instagram.com
cnet.com
developer.android.com
developers.google.com
ebay.com
facebook.com
facebookbrand.com
fileproinfo.com
gadgets.ndtv.com
guidebooks.google.com
help.instagram.com
lifehacker.com
microsoft.com
orangefreesounds.com
research.fb.com
rover.ebay.com
support.google.com
support.ring.com
twitter.com
www.addictivetips.com
www.androidauthority.com
www.androidheadlines.com
www.collectorsweekly.com
www.digitaltrends.com
www.howtogeek.com
www.instagram.com
www.lifewire.com
www.quora.com
www.storyblocks.com
www.theverge.com
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Iβve never considered black listing a site before tbh. Do you guys find it worth the effort when you could just, not click on the links?
Not op, but I have been doing this for years with a userscript. Getting rid of SEO garbage, pintrest, quora, etc links makes more room for the helpful results.
It is also a good way to ensure you don't land on any recipe sites that are built more for wasting your time than helping you cook.
I just got into the habit of permabanning any site that had anti-user patterns, annoying popups, right click/back button blocking, or clickbait headlines. I don't see a lot of that stuff anymore. Makes the net a bit more useful. Or at least less frustrating.
Pinterest. Hands down the best quality of life site block.
Before I found an extension to silence them, that putrid site would infest all of my image searches with its gatekeeping bullshit.
*://picclick.com/*
Just reposts old ebay listings as far as I can tell. I guess it could come in handy if you want some historical price data or something, but it mostly just craps up the search results.
I'd be happy if there is a way to block webshops. You can block e.g. Amazon but then there will be another shop in its place.
I wasn't so happy with Searx but I think I'll have a look at SearXNG if blocking is an option
In SearXNG you can redirect, or block domains (but you still need to define them). You need to enable the "Hostname replace" pluging in the setting.yaml
enabled_plugins:
- 'Hostname replace' # see hostname_replace configuration below
And then define the rules like this:
hostname_replace:
# My redirects
'(.*\.)?reddit\.com$': 'old.reddit.com'
# My filters
'slant\.co': false
'dailymail\.co\.uk': false
If you ever do web dev (even just occasionally edit HTML), I highly recommend blocking w3cschools.com. it's not just lacking, it's often flat wrong.
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