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I'd love to be able to filter out, for instance, pinterest. I'd actually pay nominal amounts of money for a search service that had my interests in mind; as op

I'd love to be able to filter out, for instance, pinterest. I'd actually pay nominal amounts of money for a search service that had my interests in mind; as opposed to advertisers and thought police.

WarOnPrivacy 6y ago
> and thought police Copyright interests pay large cash to make sure you know is truly best for you. You could show a little gratitude.
- topspin 6y ago
  Indeed. I'll keep that in mind.
samizdis 6y ago
I was pretty sure that it could be done in Google with operators in the search box (going back a few years), but I don't use Google any more and one reason I stopped was that it kept incrementally degrading the ability to refine individual searches manually. Anyhow, I just did a DDG search and came across this [1], which looks interesting for your use case (although that Pinterest is mentioned is a coincidence). I've not tried it out, so I can't recommend, comment or anything. [1] https://www.techsupportalert.com/content/how-remove-pinterest-and-other-sites-google-search.htm https://www.techsupportalert.com/content/how-remove-pinteres...
ceh123 6y ago
Shameless plug, but I've been working on a project [0] that does exactly this. Currently it just has a few filters I've created for myself and only supports web search (and a few !bang like re-directs), but I'm working on implementing user accounts that will be able to create their own filters. [0] https://hadal.io https://hadal.io
- chriscyber 6y ago
  Pretty cool. It filters by URL?
  - ceh123 6y ago
    Yup, that's exactly it. I've found that there are certain websites that I have basically no interest in seeing. Eventually I might incorporate more granularity to get sub-domains or something like that, but for now it's just whole websites based on URL.
depingus 6y ago
You can just add -site:pinterest.com in DuckDuckGo. I think you can do the same in Google.
- topspin 6y ago
  I'm well aware of the various search flags. I can also think of at least 10 domains I'd like to permanently obviate from every search. Adding flags for all of these every time is unwieldy. I have toyed with browser extensions to achieve this, but I quickly learned that using many of these flags will compromise search results. A good solution will require a search engine that anticipates this use case.
BrendanEich 6y ago
Me too — most image searches need a "-pinterest" term added.
- ffpip 6y ago
  google.*##.g:has(a[href*=".pinterest."]) google.*##a[href*=".pinterest."]:nth-ancestor(1) Add to uBlock Origin 'My Filters' Section :)

I'd love to be able to filter out, for instance, pinterest. I'd actually pay nominal amounts of money for a search service that had my interests in mind; as opposed to advertisers and thought police.

WarOnPrivacy 6y ago

> and thought police Copyright interests pay large cash to make sure you know is truly best for you. You could show a little gratitude.

topspin 6y ago
Indeed. I'll keep that in mind.

samizdis 6y ago

I was pretty sure that it could be done in Google with operators in the search box (going back a few years), but I don't use Google any more and one reason I stopped was that it kept incrementally degrading the ability to refine individual searches manually. Anyhow, I just did a DDG search and came across this [1], which looks interesting for your use case (although that Pinterest is mentioned is a coincidence). I've not tried it out, so I can't recommend, comment or anything. [1] https://www.techsupportalert.com/content/how-remove-pinterest-and-other-sites-google-search.htm https://www.techsupportalert.com/content/how-remove-pinteres...

ceh123 6y ago

Shameless plug, but I've been working on a project [0] that does exactly this. Currently it just has a few filters I've created for myself and only supports web search (and a few !bang like re-directs), but I'm working on implementing user accounts that will be able to create their own filters. [0] https://hadal.io https://hadal.io

chriscyber 6y ago
Pretty cool. It filters by URL?
- ceh123 6y ago
  Yup, that's exactly it. I've found that there are certain websites that I have basically no interest in seeing. Eventually I might incorporate more granularity to get sub-domains or something like that, but for now it's just whole websites based on URL.

depingus 6y ago

You can just add -site:pinterest.com in DuckDuckGo. I think you can do the same in Google.

topspin 6y ago
I'm well aware of the various search flags. I can also think of at least 10 domains I'd like to permanently obviate from every search. Adding flags for all of these every time is unwieldy. I have toyed with browser extensions to achieve this, but I quickly learned that using many of these flags will compromise search results. A good solution will require a search engine that anticipates this use case.

BrendanEich 6y ago

Me too — most image searches need a "-pinterest" term added.

ffpip 6y ago
google.*##.g:has(a[href*=".pinterest."]) google.*##a[href*=".pinterest."]:nth-ancestor(1) Add to uBlock Origin 'My Filters' Section :)