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Some basic filters for stuff that pops up all the time and is never what I'm looking for: /.pinterest.\../ /.torrent.\../ /.spankbang.\../ /.mp3.\../ /.pro

• fennecfoxen 5y ago
  dot NYC is full of spam? A pity. Hard to get voting or ferry info here without it. :)
  • dspillett 5y ago
    Then edit the list instead of blindly using it? And surely you know the local addresses for such things, or do you search for them using Google every single time you need to travel or vote?
• ouid 5y ago
  God damn it. I don't want heroin detox; I want heroin.
  • jean_valje4n 5y ago
    Careful what you wish for
    • hellbannedguy 5y ago
      Bupenorpine--for those that are serious.
  • jquery 5y ago
    you really don't...
    • DrSiemer 5y ago
      Is there a word or expression for when people fail to spot fairly obvious sarcasm?
• viraptor 5y ago
  You're losing lots of quality content by removing those TLDs. I'm using 3 of the listed ones just because they're cheaper and found similar ones to be a good indicator of "this is less likely to be blogspam, and more likely a personal space".
  • sodapopcan 5y ago
    Ya, I use them for personal space. My last name is five letters ending in "st" and I managed to snag that three-letter st domain which I was pretty happy about :) I know a lot of people seem to hate them--and a lot of non-tech-types don't always seem to understand that they are domains--but I think they're fun, and I love finding peoples' personal homepages (mine is currently borked, of course, but not because of the st domain).
  • dspillett 5y ago
    There is also a lot of junk on those TLDs, especially the inexpensive ones, outweighing the ratio of good-to-crap found on the big few. Blocking them in search lists doesn't stop you finding them indirectly by them being mentioned in content elsewhere, or from even more direct referrals, so the non-junk ones can be found those ways. I tend to find useful content on .com et al as much those ways as by direct search these days anyway.
• Debug_Overload 5y ago
  I'm not sure how spankbang got on that list but it's hilarious. Is it really a common problem like pinterest and similar stuff on that list?
  • _fat_santa 5y ago
    If there is such thing as being "too good" at SEO, Pinterest is "too good" at SEO. It's a common complaint with image search that Pinterest will cannibalize the results. What will often happen is someone will repost an image from a website or blog to Pinterest and then when you look for images of that thing, you get the image that was reposted to Pinterest instead of the OG image.
    • thaumasiotes 5y ago
      It's supposed to be an adversarial system. Why does Google still provide Pinterest search results, given that if you follow them, you're not allowed to see the image?
      • jquery 5y ago
        I doubt Google wants to, but their users keep clicking on Pinterest's SEO'd results for "cute cake pop" instead of whatever non-Pinterest result Google serves up. Basically Google being outdone at their own game in this niche area.
        • thaumasiotes 5y ago
          Google special-cases their own stuff all the time. Why haven't they done that for Pinterest?
          • jquery 5y ago
            Who says they haven't? As to why they haven't totally blocked Pinterest, that would be pretty controversial given Pinterest paints inside the lines. edit: oh, I see the confusion. People misunderstand what Google image search is, how it works, and are blaming Pinterest for Google's ineptitude.
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• jagger27 5y ago
  Ah yes the notoriously spammy .dev TLD. I guarantee you that .com, .net, and .org have far more spam and low quality sites than this stupid list.
  • chris37879 5y ago
    Yeah, some people are morons and stuck in the original "If it's not one of the old domains you're not a 'real' website" mindset. Kinda makes me glad to know he won't accidentally stumble onto Flutter though, since bother their package manager and main site are .dev :P.
    • altantiprocrast 5y ago
      Or golang at go.dev
    • rewq4321 5y ago
      > some people are morons https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  • emodendroket 5y ago
    I'll add that if you're getting unwanted ads for that many drug addiction recovery-related terms constantly, perhaps your habits do merit examination.
  • dredmorbius 5y ago
    The original generic TLDs have many highly-ranked legitimate sites. The problem with extended generic TLDs is that the spam sites have managed to become highly ranked. Yes, there's good stuff there, undoubtedly. But search engines can't find it. At which point it may as well not exist. I'm not a fan of outright blocking at this level without good cause, but it could well be worthwhile to block an entire TLD in cases.
• guerrilla 5y ago
  Finally, death to pinterest!
• ipiz0618 5y ago
  I'm using .xyz domains for my side projects because they are cheap. Guess they are because they look "spammy" to some.
  • jjeaff 5y ago
    Interesting thing about .XYZ is that if you try to send someone a link with a .xyz url via SMS it usually just gets quietly spam filtered out by the carriers and never received.
• alvarlagerlof 5y ago
  .dev blocks a lot of personal blogs
  • Gigachad 5y ago
    Almost all personal blogs fall under that tld filter.
• Gigachad 5y ago
  That's a whole lot of TLDs to block. .me is very common for personal pages/blogs/emails. .app is used for a lot of legitimate sites as well.
• Otek 5y ago
  This "recommended" TLD list would block my bank site, government tax service and most of news sited since my country TLD is blocked here. Hilarious.
  • dspillett 5y ago
    It is only a suggested list. Edit as needed depending on locality. I don't expect it would inconvenience you if it blocked my local bank or government tax service. Always review blocklists rather than applying them automatically as your needs may vary from their creators'. No one list is going to be right for everyone, so criticising one for not being right for you is a bit "me me me me".
• dspillett 5y ago
  You need to escape your * characters, by prepending them with \ like \*, to stop HN interpreting them as markup intended to control italic/not.