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As others have said, it can also be done with a uBlock filter. For example, here are my filters that block and remove terrible copycats/translations of StackOv
by Quenhus 5y ago
As others have said, it can also be done with a uBlock filter.
For example, here are my filters that block and remove terrible copycats/translations of StackOverflow https://gist.github.com/quenhus/6bd2c47e5780f726f0c96c0a2ee762a4 https://gist.github.com/quenhus/6bd2c47e5780f726f0c96c0a2ee7... . I hate these copies that somehow manage to be better referenced than StackOverflow.
- ghoomketu 5y agoThis is amazing. I tried extending this to remove all pinterest results too (the real cancer of the internet) but the filter doesn't seem to be working.. Any tips? google.*##.g:has(a[href*="pinterest.*"])
- post_from_work 5y agoNuking Pinterest off of the Internet is what immediately came to my mind as well!
- zibzab 5y agoSeriously, how does something so hated continues to exist? Is some evil billionaire secretly bankrolling Pinterest as a cruel joke?
- politelemon 5y agoAnecdotally, when I've mentioned my hate for Pinterest appearing in search results, several of my coworkers have reacted with surprise. They use it regularly, and mentioned something about pinning interesting results. Our individual minds boggled at each other.
- aembleton 5y agoGoogle will have all those signals that people like using Pintrest and will keep it on the first page.
- 4ec0755f5522 5y agoYou know, maybe it's really good! I never considered this possibility because of its hostile UX. Any service that pops up a login and won't let you access any content without logging in I just nope out of and have for many years. Especially user-hostile on mobile (Twitter and Reddit websites work really really hard to force you into using their apps and/or logging in on mobile, much more than on desktop). But maybe we're missing something and Pinterest is super awesome. Maybe I've been using this anti-user UX pattern as a signal for "crapware" but it's not accurate. Maybe fantastic services are hiding behind this pattern. I'm not gonna sign up to find out but it's interesting to think about. Or maybe I'll setup a VM for this and finally get FB/Insta/TikTok/Pinterest/Twitter, check em all out, and find out what the rest of humanity has been up to.
- dewey 5y agoThis is a classic example of the HN bubble. Nobody of my "tech" friends uses Pinterest, everyone who's not in that group uses it heavily for finding furniture, clothes or recipes. It's usually the app they use instead of googling for something.
- hdjrudni 5y agoMy former manager worked there..
- aerique 5y agoAs much as I hate walled garden sites like Pinterest, Quora, Instagram it is huge for looking up clothes, recipes, jewelry. So it serves a function for non-tech people. Its format works for them.
- FourthProtocol 5y agoUsing it daily for inspiration for radio controlled cars and trucks I scratch-build from styrene. I also use it for interior design ideas, fashion and if the odd pitcure of a VW T4 van build pops up I tend to save to a collection for when I start my own conversion in the spring. I love it.
- astura 5y agoThe only people who hate Pinterest are computer nerds, which are an extremely tiny minority of the population, and not Pinterest's target user anyways). Everyone else either likes it or doesn't have a strong opinion on it. Pinterest is very popular in my friend group (which contains zero computer nerds outside of myself).
- matkoniecz 5y ago> Seriously, how does something so hated continues to exist? Something hated by billions of nonusers (but not to point of outlawing it) and liked by 25 paying consumers can happily survive as a business. And Pintereset is actually liked by many people who have user accounts there.
- deepstack 5y agowould also add IG and FB to the list.
- FourthProtocol 5y agoSooooo so many hobbies have moved from forums to first Facebook, and the last few years IG. One of my girlfriend's workflows is research on IG, buy on Etsy.
- therealmarv 5y agoPinterest is a hate/love relationship. Sometimes it's like a kind of archive of things which have disappeared on other sites (imagine certain clothes you cannot buy anymore). I actually like that they really make a copy of the content. But of course this is totally non tech related.
- cptskippy 5y agoI wouldn't call it an archive, it's more of a fragment. There's usually no context or link back to the source so it merely exists as evidence that you're not insane.
- therealmarv 5y agohaha, I like this reply "... evidence that you're not insane" :D
- bozhark 5y agoPLEASE MAKE THIS WORK. caps intended.
- RileyJames 5y agoAnd here’s the same thing for uBlacklist: https://github.com/rjaus/ublacklist-pinterest/blob/main/ublacklist-pinterest.txt https://github.com/rjaus/ublacklist-pinterest/blob/main/ubla...
- naniwaduni 5y agoIt doesn't work because = is looking strictly for a substring, it doesn't do globbing. Something like [href="pinterest."] probably gets closer to what you're expecting.
- detaro 5y ago(use \* to escape the *)
- alfu 5y agoI am using these: google.*##.g:has(a[href*=".pinterest.*"]) google.*##a[href*=".pinterest."]:upward(1)
- politelemon 5y agoThanks this seems to be the closest. On the search results page the Pinterest results still appear, but without a link to the site, so you see floating paragraphs. On the image results page the pinterest results do seem to disappear. I tried setting the upward() to 2, but that got rid of all the image results.
- jb1991 5y agoExcellent, thanks. I am so glad to have that pinterest shit out of my search results. Companies that try to take over your life, even in small ways, should all fall apart.
- ashleysmithgpu 5y agoThank-you so much! It's been a disease on my browser for too long
- ItsBob 5y agoOk, genuine question - Why do people hate Pinterest so much? I have no feelings towards it either way (I don't have an account on it but I have viewed some things over time)
- iamphilrae 5y agoMy hatred is due to the fact that if you image search for something, e.g. a product, click on what you think is the product’s site, however you end up on someone’s Pinterest board. From there, there’s no way to get back to the original site. And the biggest annoyance is that the search results always seem to rank better than originals.
- DrSiemer 5y agoImagine the following scenario: you need an image for an internal presentation, so you don't care about copyright. You find an image in the Google search results that looks promising. You open it, but end up on the dreaded Pinterest site. You'll know for sure that there is no chance on above average quality or size. Hovering over the image will overlay a "join us" message. If you click to image you get a "join us" modal. When you right click, you get a custom menu, that does have a "Save image" option. But clicking that will just get you the same "join us" again. You'll need to inspector hack the image out, which can quickly become annoying if you need more than one. Beneath it will be a whole bunch of also promising looking images, but scrolling down a bit will quickly get you, you guessed it, a "join us" modal. Clicking on any image there will get you to another page just like it, but this one often opening with the "join us" modal already open. If you use Ctrl-click, to save your position in the overview that you inspector hacked the scroll block modal out of, tough luck: that behavior is modified as well. It will just open the new page like a regular click. Go back and you're at the top again. The site feels like a collection of dark patterns hijacking your image search results.
- ItsBob 5y agoYou're right, it's been a while since I went there. I forgot about all that shit. I'm sold. Death to Pinterest
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- bmlzootown 5y agoI didn't even think to try and do such with uBlock, and this precompiled list gives me all the more reason to do so. Thank you!
- zaik 5y agoAn uBlock filter list is the correct solution to this problem. I want to keep browser extensions which have full access to all website contents at an absolute minimum. I only use extensions which are available in the official Arch repos (like firefox-ublock-origin).
- zelon88 5y agoThat is specifically the only thing I've ever used this for. The worst offender hides the "solution" behind a paywall.
- NmAmDa 5y agoThat's wonderful, thanks for that list. I hope that someone else have figured one of github/gitlab issues clones
- Quenhus 5y agoI just added a filters list for Github copycats in the Gist https://gist.github.com/quenhus/6bd2c47e5780f726f0c96c0a2ee762a4/ https://gist.github.com/quenhus/6bd2c47e5780f726f0c96c0a2ee7... . List of domains taken from https://github.com/arosh/ublacklist-github-translation https://github.com/arosh/ublacklist-github-translation
- 878654Tom 5y agoCreated a repository for it which also includes the Pinterest list of uBlacklist (https://github.com/stroobants-dev/ublock-origin-shitty-copies-filter https://github.com/stroobants-dev/ublock-origin-shitty-copie...). Easier to keep it up to date than a gist.
- RileyJames 5y agoWould you submit this to an the awesome list I’ve made for uBlacklist? I love uBlacklist, but I felt the community aspect of it was missing, and vital to its success. I felt bootstrapping lists and GitHub repos was the most instantaneous way to enable a community. I comment each time it hits HN, but beyond that haven’t seen much uptake / contribution towards building blacklists. https://github.com/rjaus/awesome-ublacklist https://github.com/rjaus/awesome-ublacklist
- franga2000 5y agoAnd awesome list is a great idea! I have a huge blocklist of those fake machine-translated e-commerce sites that just redirect to AliExpress. I'll try to remember to submit it later today
- xorcist 5y agoIsn't this equally possible with a uBlock blocklist? I already trust gorhill, and a bunch of Firefox maintainers, with my life and my passwords.
- franga2000 5y agoI'm guessing you haven't tried it. uBlacklist is purpose-built for search filtering, so the UX is far better - It pretty much feels like an official part of Google Search. Next to each result is a single-click block button and the results can be shown/hidden with a button in the top options bar. uBlock gives you all the building blocks, but you have to assemble and manage them yourself. As for trust, that's a more general issue. Personally, I can't imagine someone would go through this much trouble just to ship a trojan and I find the probability of their GitHub and AMO account being compromised quite unlikely since there are far more lucrative targets for such an attacker - including uBlock Origin. I guess there's always the possibility of auditing the code and installing a self-signed version with no automatic updates.
- pbronez 5y ago
- behnamoh 5y agoI do that to remove Medium websites from my Google search. It's a disgrace to the free internet and the amount of garbage on it is staggering.
- bencollier49 5y agoThank you. Came here to say the same thing. It's a blight on the Web.
- allisfalafel 5y agoSometimes there are good articles on it, scribe.rip is pretty handy for reading those few.
- mellavora 5y agoalso 'towards data science';
- behnamoh 5y agoYes, that too.
- bubblethink 5y agoIs there a way to filter out sites that use their own domains but are medium websites ?
- dt3ft 5y agoThank you for this filter. Much appreciated!
- dtech 5y agoThanks! These garbage sites have been sneaking towards the top search results the last months.
- nxpnsv 5y agoThank you!
- Siira 5y ago1. How do I subscribe to these lists in uBlock? 2. Often, the original website (Github, Stackoverflow) is not present in my search results; in such situations, I prefer seeing the copycats to seeing nothing at all. Wouldn't using these black lists be counterproductive for me then?
- sixothree 5y agogithub-wiki-see.page is a new one I came across today.
- Quenhus 5y agoI don't know what to do with it. You can't find Github Wiki results on search engine because of Github's robots.txt. The project is thus quite legit. Source: https://github-wiki-see.page/ https://github-wiki-see.page/