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Pinterest is by the far the worst because it takes content from the rest of the world and strips away all context. It's the anti-wikipedia, an information black

Pinterest is by the far the worst because it takes content from the rest of the world and strips away all context. It's the anti-wikipedia, an information black hole.

ineedasername 5y ago
I couldn't put my vague dislike for Pinterest into words until this: you have it exactly.
wnkrshm 5y ago
I hate Pinterest with a passion. If you want to find reference images for whatever topic, all you get is the medium res crap with a 'make an account' pop-up instead of the original source they stole it from. I think alphabet or whatever will acquire it in the near future (or have they already?) because there is just no other explanation for letting Pinterest poison image search that much.
- EamonnMR 5y ago
  Image search is practically dead and Pintrest singlehandedly killed it. I just use Wikimedia Commons now.
  - NaturalPhallacy 5y ago
    works fine on DuckDuckGo
Bilters 5y ago
Whenever I put a google search down, and see one page of Pinterest on there I immediately go back to the search box and go for; “-site:pinterest.*”. I absolutely hate that site with a passion.
- Scoundreller 5y ago
  Is there a Google option to perma-ban a domain? Maybe a place I can upload a HOSTS file? Or an extension that adds this to every search?
  - 9dev 5y ago
    There is: uBlacklist[1]. I've been searching for the exact same thing to get rid of Indian tutorial scamsites, bad GitHub and StackOverflow clones and, of course, Pinterest results :) Can recommend. [1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublacklist/pncfbmialoiaghdehhbnbhkkgmjanfhe https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublacklist/pncfbmi...
  - Laforet 5y ago
    You can try this extension. It was forked from a project once maintained and abandoned by Google themselves. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklistnot-by/cbbbhelcpfjhdcncigdlkabmjbgokmpg?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist... https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/personal-blocklist/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/personal-bloc...
- seanp2k2 5y ago
  Even though I have the app and an account, I still despise using it. They break things like zoom and saving images. Clicking on something interesting takes you to…a site that doesn’t actually have that. I truly don’t understand how Pinterest is so popular when it’s also so awful. Tumblr was so much better until Verizon destroyed it with management incompetence.
- Solocomplex 5y ago
  Unpinterested is an extension do do this automatically
klyrs 5y ago
I fully agree, but do they count as social media? I kinda categorize them as crowdsourced SEO spam

Pinterest is by the far the worst because it takes content from the rest of the world and strips away all context. It's the anti-wikipedia, an information black hole.

ineedasername 5y ago

I couldn't put my vague dislike for Pinterest into words until this: you have it exactly.

wnkrshm 5y ago

I hate Pinterest with a passion. If you want to find reference images for whatever topic, all you get is the medium res crap with a 'make an account' pop-up instead of the original source they stole it from. I think alphabet or whatever will acquire it in the near future (or have they already?) because there is just no other explanation for letting Pinterest poison image search that much.

EamonnMR 5y ago
Image search is practically dead and Pintrest singlehandedly killed it. I just use Wikimedia Commons now.
- NaturalPhallacy 5y ago
  works fine on DuckDuckGo

Bilters 5y ago

Whenever I put a google search down, and see one page of Pinterest on there I immediately go back to the search box and go for; “-site:pinterest.*”. I absolutely hate that site with a passion.

Scoundreller 5y ago
Is there a Google option to perma-ban a domain? Maybe a place I can upload a HOSTS file? Or an extension that adds this to every search?
- 9dev 5y ago
  There is: uBlacklist[1]. I've been searching for the exact same thing to get rid of Indian tutorial scamsites, bad GitHub and StackOverflow clones and, of course, Pinterest results :) Can recommend. [1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublacklist/pncfbmialoiaghdehhbnbhkkgmjanfhe https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublacklist/pncfbmi...
- Laforet 5y ago
  You can try this extension. It was forked from a project once maintained and abandoned by Google themselves. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklistnot-by/cbbbhelcpfjhdcncigdlkabmjbgokmpg?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist... https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/personal-blocklist/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/personal-bloc...
seanp2k2 5y ago
Even though I have the app and an account, I still despise using it. They break things like zoom and saving images. Clicking on something interesting takes you to…a site that doesn’t actually have that. I truly don’t understand how Pinterest is so popular when it’s also so awful. Tumblr was so much better until Verizon destroyed it with management incompetence.
Solocomplex 5y ago
Unpinterested is an extension do do this automatically

klyrs 5y ago

I fully agree, but do they count as social media? I kinda categorize them as crowdsourced SEO spam