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The ones thing I want more than anything from google or DuckDuckGo or anyone really is the ability to give a list of domains and never have their results show u

by dhosek 5y ago

The ones thing I want more than anything from google or DuckDuckGo or anyone really is the ability to give a list of domains and never have their results show up in my searches. I know I can do this on a per search basis but I want it to be a configurable setting.

mattwad 5y ago
UBlacklist is a plugin that does this. It's so great to be able to hide all those sites that just cache Git issues and SO posts.
- nickysielicki 5y ago
  Oh man, this plugin is going to save me hours of time over the next 30 years. Goodbye forever, cplusplus.com
- RileyJames 5y ago
  Just to add to that, uBlacklist has a power feature called subscriptions. Which is massively under utilised. It enables a collaborative effort in blocking spam / low value domains. If you make a block list, please submit it to the list I’ve made: https://github.com/rjaus/awesome-ublacklist https://github.com/rjaus/awesome-ublacklist (There’s no great subscription discovery as yet)
- dhosek 5y ago
  I installed it and it's—ok? For search results where the spam overwhelms the signal (it used to be able to do a decent reverse phone lookup by putting a phone number into Google), you end up with empty pages or mostly empty pages in the search results. Better than nothing, but it really should be a feature from the search engine, not a browser plugin.
eitland 5y ago
I used to have a text document on my desktop containing a list of domains that contained autogenerated content, each with a minus in front, like: -stupidautogeneratedcontent1.com -stupidautogeneratedcontent2.com etc I figured sooner or later Google would pick up the signal but I think instead they just started ignoring my "- requests" as I stopped using them. edit: or maybe they fix the problem. Spam sites used to be a problem during the early decline of Google. I think what happened was that problem actually almost disappeared for me and was replaced by irrelevant results from non-spam-sites Edit: mahalo.com was one of those, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahalo.com https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahalo.com
- dcdc123 5y ago
  I’ve you tried -site:site.com? I think that still works.
niutech 5y ago
Just filter out results using uBlock Origin like this: google.*##.g:has(a[href*="example.com"])

by dhosek 5y ago

mattwad 5y ago

UBlacklist is a plugin that does this. It's so great to be able to hide all those sites that just cache Git issues and SO posts.

nickysielicki 5y ago
Oh man, this plugin is going to save me hours of time over the next 30 years. Goodbye forever, cplusplus.com
RileyJames 5y ago
Just to add to that, uBlacklist has a power feature called subscriptions. Which is massively under utilised. It enables a collaborative effort in blocking spam / low value domains. If you make a block list, please submit it to the list I’ve made: https://github.com/rjaus/awesome-ublacklist https://github.com/rjaus/awesome-ublacklist (There’s no great subscription discovery as yet)
dhosek 5y ago
I installed it and it's—ok? For search results where the spam overwhelms the signal (it used to be able to do a decent reverse phone lookup by putting a phone number into Google), you end up with empty pages or mostly empty pages in the search results. Better than nothing, but it really should be a feature from the search engine, not a browser plugin.

eitland 5y ago

I used to have a text document on my desktop containing a list of domains that contained autogenerated content, each with a minus in front, like: -stupidautogeneratedcontent1.com -stupidautogeneratedcontent2.com etc I figured sooner or later Google would pick up the signal but I think instead they just started ignoring my "- requests" as I stopped using them. edit: or maybe they fix the problem. Spam sites used to be a problem during the early decline of Google. I think what happened was that problem actually almost disappeared for me and was replaced by irrelevant results from non-spam-sites Edit: mahalo.com was one of those, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahalo.com https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahalo.com

dcdc123 5y ago
I’ve you tried -site:site.com? I think that still works.

niutech 5y ago

Just filter out results using uBlock Origin like this: google.*##.g:has(a[href*="example.com"])