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I'm amazed that there isn't anything like uBlock Origin for search results.

gerdesj 5y ago
"My eyes are bent, my back is grey etc" I think we have loads of tools to play with but fundamentally there is a problem when you are fighting with your search engine to find stuff you want to find. My laptop (Arch) still has Chromium as default with uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, uBlacklist and a few others running. I will be moving back to FF and running a sync server because I am that pissed off and able to do so. I'll also take a few others with me (between 2 and rather more) When I say move back to FF, I'm talking about something like reverting a 10-15 years change. I've always had FF available but it fell short back in the day for long enough for me to move to the Goggle thing. Now I think I'll go back. Noone at G will lament their loss, I'm not even a rounding error. I'm sure that all is fine there.
- eitland 5y ago
  > I'm not even a rounding error. I'm sure that all is fine there. I'm already here :-) If 5 or so devs read it and change too and they start mentioning it then we have a fast chain reaction. Just look at WhatsApp or even Microsoft or IBM: they seemed unstoppable but are very nuch just another alternative today.
aarchi 5y ago
If you're referring to user-curated search result blocking, that's very easy with DuckDuckGo and uBlock Origin (just block elements like [data-domain="w3schools.com"]; see my comment to the GP). I don't know of any large extant lists like this though.
- derefr 5y ago
  That won't do much if every result on the first page is blocked. Ideally a filter list like this could be pushed to the server side as a per-user preference to go with your query, so that if e.g. the top 10000 results were all filtered out, then you wouldn't have to click through (or infinite-scroll autoload) 100 empty pages before getting anything.
  - bombcar 5y ago
    https://millionshort.com/ https://millionshort.com/ tries something like this.
  - aarchi 5y ago
    DDG will add more results, if enough are hidden. If I search "w3schools" with my filter, there are only two results on the first page that are not hidden, so it immediately displays the second page below. It seems that they planned for this use case.
drilldrive 5y ago
I used to have an automatic google search-domain blocker. It was just front-end though so if a page would have website domains that were useless, it would only have 1 or 2 results on it unfortunately. Something a little better integrated would be nicer.

"My eyes are bent, my back is grey etc" I think we have loads of tools to play with but fundamentally there is a problem when you are fighting with your search engine to find stuff you want to find. My laptop (Arch) still has Chromium as default with uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, uBlacklist and a few others running. I will be moving back to FF and running a sync server because I am that pissed off and able to do so. I'll also take a few others with me (between 2 and rather more) When I say move back to FF, I'm talking about something like reverting a 10-15 years change. I've always had FF available but it fell short back in the day for long enough for me to move to the Goggle thing. Now I think I'll go back. Noone at G will lament their loss, I'm not even a rounding error. I'm sure that all is fine there.

eitland 5y ago
> I'm not even a rounding error. I'm sure that all is fine there. I'm already here :-) If 5 or so devs read it and change too and they start mentioning it then we have a fast chain reaction. Just look at WhatsApp or even Microsoft or IBM: they seemed unstoppable but are very nuch just another alternative today.

aarchi 5y ago

If you're referring to user-curated search result blocking, that's very easy with DuckDuckGo and uBlock Origin (just block elements like [data-domain="w3schools.com"]; see my comment to the GP). I don't know of any large extant lists like this though.

derefr 5y ago
That won't do much if every result on the first page is blocked. Ideally a filter list like this could be pushed to the server side as a per-user preference to go with your query, so that if e.g. the top 10000 results were all filtered out, then you wouldn't have to click through (or infinite-scroll autoload) 100 empty pages before getting anything.
- bombcar 5y ago
  https://millionshort.com/ https://millionshort.com/ tries something like this.
- aarchi 5y ago
  DDG will add more results, if enough are hidden. If I search "w3schools" with my filter, there are only two results on the first page that are not hidden, so it immediately displays the second page below. It seems that they planned for this use case.

drilldrive 5y ago

I used to have an automatic google search-domain blocker. It was just front-end though so if a page would have website domains that were useless, it would only have 1 or 2 results on it unfortunately. Something a little better integrated would be nicer.