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Pinterest is a cancer in the world of useful content. It's bad enough that they've destroyed Google image search, but now I see results from them bleeding on to

Pinterest is a cancer in the world of useful content. It's bad enough that they've destroyed Google image search, but now I see results from them bleeding on to regular search as well, which boggles my mind because Pinterest just links to other sites (while making it next to impossible to find the actual site.) I hate Pinterest so much that I've set up a keyword shortcut in Chrome search for image search that adds "-site:pinterest.com" automatically when searching.

easytiger 6y ago
My now wife was using Pinterest as a kind of memo board for preparations for our wedding. I signed up and even after a month the UI flow was so incomprehensible I had no idea how it was supposed to work. Achieving basic tasks was beyond me. Yet lots of people with non tech brains seemed to just accept it's imperfections and inherently unpredictable UI as normal for modern technology.
- elcomet 6y ago
  I think there's a disconnection between tech people and other people. I know plenty of non tech people which are perfectly happy with pinterest, looking for cooking recipe or DIY ideas there and pinterest gives them perfectly what they're looking for. They don't care about it's impact on google search or other tech stuff.
- DanBC 6y ago
  It's just visual bookmarking, with the addition of your bookmarks being categorised how you like and publicly visible. You sign up for pinterest. You create a couple of different boards. You install the pinterest extension. Now when you browse the internet and you see an image you like you clicky the browser button (from the extension) and select what board of yours you want it to go to. Or you can visit Pinterest and search for a thing, and browse the results, and then save some of those things to your boards. Other people searching Google or Pinterest for a thing may be shown a link to your Pinterest board, and that link will include a link to your profile and your boards. I agree the UI sucks, but all UI sucks. Pinterest's sucky UI isn't particularly worse than all the others.
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boraoztunc 6y ago
It became irritating for me as well.. Yesterday one of the folks here shared a code for uBlock, working like a charm removing Pinterest from the search results. google.*##.g:has(a[href*=".pinterest."]) google.*##a[href*=".pinterest."]:nth-ancestor(1)
tt433 6y ago
"-site:..." didn't work well enough for me because they also have other domains besides ".com" to litter the web with, "-inurl:pinterest" works.
- colejohnson66 6y ago
  Wouldn’t that also remove results that just talk about Pinterest? Such as an article like this that has “pinterest” in its URL?
  - jtsiskin 6y ago
    ...I think that’s just fine for almost all searches

easytiger 6y ago

My now wife was using Pinterest as a kind of memo board for preparations for our wedding. I signed up and even after a month the UI flow was so incomprehensible I had no idea how it was supposed to work. Achieving basic tasks was beyond me. Yet lots of people with non tech brains seemed to just accept it's imperfections and inherently unpredictable UI as normal for modern technology.

elcomet 6y ago
I think there's a disconnection between tech people and other people. I know plenty of non tech people which are perfectly happy with pinterest, looking for cooking recipe or DIY ideas there and pinterest gives them perfectly what they're looking for. They don't care about it's impact on google search or other tech stuff.
DanBC 6y ago
It's just visual bookmarking, with the addition of your bookmarks being categorised how you like and publicly visible. You sign up for pinterest. You create a couple of different boards. You install the pinterest extension. Now when you browse the internet and you see an image you like you clicky the browser button (from the extension) and select what board of yours you want it to go to. Or you can visit Pinterest and search for a thing, and browse the results, and then save some of those things to your boards. Other people searching Google or Pinterest for a thing may be shown a link to your Pinterest board, and that link will include a link to your profile and your boards. I agree the UI sucks, but all UI sucks. Pinterest's sucky UI isn't particularly worse than all the others.
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boraoztunc 6y ago

It became irritating for me as well.. Yesterday one of the folks here shared a code for uBlock, working like a charm removing Pinterest from the search results. google.*##.g:has(a[href*=".pinterest."]) google.*##a[href*=".pinterest."]:nth-ancestor(1)

tt433 6y ago

"-site:..." didn't work well enough for me because they also have other domains besides ".com" to litter the web with, "-inurl:pinterest" works.

colejohnson66 6y ago
Wouldn’t that also remove results that just talk about Pinterest? Such as an article like this that has “pinterest” in its URL?
- jtsiskin 6y ago
  ...I think that’s just fine for almost all searches