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uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results
- yosito 3y agoOr just switch to Kagi, it's far better than Google anyway.
- anonymous344 3y agothis should be defacto in google, quora.com should be blocked 100% from google search results, so does all the payment requiring news websites like ny.com, but they aren't because they are all the same..
- urig 3y agoThis is asking for permission to access my personal data on more than 190 sites. I don't think so, buddy.
- unnervingduck 3y agoIt's specifically asking to access all the Google sites with a different tld, a far better approach than asking to access every website with a single permission
- wetpaws 3y ago[dead]
- dspillett 3y agoInteresting. Looks useful for the many sites that refuse to work unless I turn off my stalking preventer (or ad blocker as they call it) or have a metric shed load of clicks to not opt in or accept "legitimate interest" (will save me hitting back / close every time I see the "Admiral: Privacy and Consent Management Platform" logo, amongst others).
- ShadowBanThis01 3y agoYou used to be able to do this right on Google’s search-results page. Taking it away was just another “up yours” from Google to you.
- chx 3y agoJust switch to Kagi. Google is, alas, over. As of this morning I have fully deGoogled my laptop. Kagi, Firefox, Infomaniak kSuite. Based on my research, with more than 500GB of storage needs kSuite is the only Google Suite replacement with a competitive offer. Proton seems to only offer additional storage space in the form of 500GB per business account for 11 EUR a month. This is like 4-5 times the Google price. mailbox.org Premium is €0.20 per 5GB or €40 per TB per month. For Standard it's double. kSuite is 6.58 EUR a month for 3TB so I went with them. Signup was not smooth but once that was done it is actually working quite well. One snag: be careful with your domain transfer, back up your existing zone file before transferring, I've not considered this but your old provider will delete the records. Luckily Namecheap support found a backup for my domain despite chat claiming it is gone.
- protonmail 3y agoHi! Note that you can have 500GB storage on an individual Proton Unlimited account too: https://proton.me/mail/pricing https://proton.me/mail/pricing, while our Family account comes with 3TB total storage: https://proton.me/family https://proton.me/family. In addition to that, all paying users get storage bonuses for each year of their subscription: https://proton.me/support/storage-bonus https://proton.me/support/storage-bonus.
- chx 3y agoHi! Let me emphasize: > with more than 500GB of storage https://proton.me/support/increase-storage-space https://proton.me/support/increase-storage-space suggests for this case > For example, if you wanted 2 TB of storage, you could sign up for Proton Business with four users (4 x 500 GB = 2 TB).
- protonmail 3y agoThank you for spotting this, we will update the article as soon as possible.
- chx 3y ago
- arcza 3y agoBlocking medium.com has been the best thing I've done with an extension in 2023. Thanks uBlacklist!
- punkybr3wster 3y agoIt’s pinterest for me. It’s infected so much image search space and never takes you to the actual source images. It’s infuriating.
- I_like_pigeons 3y agoCuriously, I was just playing with it yesterday. In the end I decided to just replace it with uBlock origin plus some filters [0], [1], [2]. While this solution doesn't add a convenient button in the UI to show the hidden domains and to quickly block them, for some reason this extension didn't work if I had javascript disabled, while the native uBlock one did. I believe there's also a userscript that does something similar, but I never tried it. [0]: https://letsblock.it/filters https://letsblock.it/filters [1]: https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter [2]: https://github.com/rotgruengelb/BlockModReposting https://github.com/rotgruengelb/BlockModReposting
- Night_Thastus 3y agoFor anyone looking for something a tad more user-friendly, I use the extension Google Hit Hider to accomplish this. Works great. You can sort and filter the list of blocked URLs, de-duplicate, and do all sorts of useful manipulations. Works well on DDG and Google, haven't tested other engines.
- lacoolj 3y agoMust be a new form of advertising - paying people to add comments to news articles with the word "kagi" everywhere and some sort of anti-google phrasing.
- Log_out_ 3y agoMmh.. Negation curation.. Can this work against seo?
- i8comments 3y agoIt also works on other search engines, which is good to know. And it has blocklist subscriptions, but none selectable by default. It would be nice if someone could make a blocklist to make Google or DDG similar in low spam to Kagi. Pretty good stuff.
- elashri 3y agoSome people already maintain some lists that you might find helpful [1] [1] https://github.com/rjaus/awesome-ublacklist https://github.com/rjaus/awesome-ublacklist
- adamzochowski 3y agoGoogle used to have own extension for chrome called "personal Blocklist", which would allow users to block specific domains from eve appearing in search results. It was great to remove instagram/LinkedIn/quora and various stack overflow clones. But as all good things, it was killed by google https://killedby.tech/google/personal-blocklist/ https://killedby.tech/google/personal-blocklist/
- nomel 3y agoGoogle used to have this build into google, directly. It’s near immediate discontinuation made me realize that google was on a downward slope of profit vs quality results.
- lakomen 3y agoThis made me realize how much I hate Google. It mutated from something good and useful to something negative. But it's representative for pretty much everything in our time. Google search on the desktop is just awful. The UI looks like it's made for mobile. Instead of search results you receive specially formatted "AI results" that are just in the way all the damn time, add nothing worthwhile. Old search I liked actually had results where you could find out what the link target was. And all results are Reddit or Wikipedia or 10 best things. As there's no other content on the internet. They also don't monetize any other content, because for them forums aren't content, audio isn't content, apps aren't content. They're driving this dystopia forward. And they want the made nest. In development aka new sites aren't welcome. Google has turned into a pos company with too much power and is spying on everyone. Their attitude towards their users and customers is hostile. This ultra capitalism needs to stop. In fact I believe Google needs to be disowned. Not just Google. All bigger than the state tech companies, Microsoft, Meta, Apple. The profits used to better the living standards of everyone on the planet. Where is the money going, the profits? Not into the 99%'s hands. Those hostile to the population companies need to be disowned.
- kderbyma 3y agoAgree. I am so sick of everything turning to shit. profits....bullshit....each one of these so called profit chasing decisions were short sighted and cost them billions and billions and possibly trillions of dollars had they just continued to care about the product and what it was originally meant for
- tamimio 3y agoA comment suggesting kagi and detailing how they are happy with it in 3 2 ..
- freedomben 3y agoThat's what I was expecting too. I'm very happy with kagi...
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- anotherhue 3y agoYou got me. But seriously...
- stavros 3y agoI never managed to get it to stick, $10/mo for a search engine seems like a lot, when compared to the free DDG, and from what I remember the results weren't impressively better, just maybe a bit better.
- beretguy 3y agoYeah, $10/month is too steep and the only reason I’m not signing up. I’d sign up for $3.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> $10/month is too steep and the only reason I’m not signing up. I’d sign up for $3 I suspect Kagi aims to corner the premium market. The 300 searches will probably get discounted. But I don’t think they should nor will discount unlimited searches + AI.
- behringer 3y agoI'm not going to play the guess your usage game. They can give me the best rate with a cap or I'll wait for the competitor to show up. Duckduckgo is fine enough for now.
- flas9sd 3y agoI'd like to use the opposite approach: top-list search hit results on websites that I've bookmarked another subpath of or visited before. Difficulty being: when to stop requesting later result pages to get a hit. Both Firefox moz_places and Chromes Default/History sqlite databases have the info to populate such a list.
- darekkay 3y agoKagi provides a feature to boost or even pin certain domains.
- krick 3y agoExcept that can be only implemented on the search-engine side, obviously.
- flas9sd 3y agoIf you're currently into researching sqlite questions and it happens you prefer one sites explanations, it likely comes up in the first few pages of a result of new questions on sqlite. By looking into bookmarks and history the users preference is clear. In general you're right as in: most often in the first few result pages, there is no hit of sites you prefer. I think an extension that lists the most popular pages that have user-agency to the top can already help without curated blocklists: rank wikipedia, stackoverflow sites, github and reddit to the top. There was a Show HN for "hypersearch" in 2022 that did something similar but in a sidebar - https://github.com/abhinavsharma/hypersearch https://github.com/abhinavsharma/hypersearch
- OldGuyInTheClub 3y agoThere is also letsblock.it I found it through HN and it has worked well for me.
- orliesaurus 3y agoThis is way cooler than what I am using, in fact a couple of weeks ago I asked X/twitter about a solution to this same issue and someone suggested this: "Highlight or Hide" on the Chrome extensions store - which is actually really simple but more manual work...
- wanderingmind 3y agoI have said this before, will say it again. This can be fully achieved with uBlock and custom filters like the one maintained by quenhus[1] that can block websites across multiple search engines. You don't need to increase the vulnerability surface by installing yet another extension on your browser. [1] https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter
- speedgoose 3y agoBut you can easily block websites from the results page.
- 3abiton 3y agoIs it domains or just pages?
- speedgoose 3y agoDomains, with a wildcard option for the subdomains.
- bmikaili 3y agoHow do you use ublock to block domains on the fly as you search?
- scotty79 3y agoThis seems to be targeted against copycat spam of known sites. I just want to remove some sites from my results because I hate them.
- mkskm 3y agoYou can generate a filter for that here: https://letsblock.it/filters/search-results https://letsblock.it/filters/search-results
- hnarn 3y ago
- wnevets 3y agoGoogle used to have this feature built-in, I dont understand why they got rid of it.
- zo1 3y agoWe all "know" deep down why they removed it. Deep down all these apps and websites are glorified databases of "something", and giving the users more options means: 1. Users find exactly what they want, more quickly. 2. They spend less time "browsing" or windows shopping to use a physical world term. 3. The app has more control over what they show you, so they can sell that feature to others. 4. Users have less perfect information, so they never know the perfect or optimal choice or purchase. This again means they can convince producers to join. 5. Less direct access to their database so less scraping. 6. People don't realize how simple the data is, just a bunch of Metadata really. All of this is given an aura of legitimacy and user friendliness by complicit or unknowing growth hackers, marketing people, UX designers, engagement people, and dozens of other names.
- tyoma 3y agoI am sure there are many organizational reasons, but the mere existence of a first-party “fix search engine results” app implies that personalized search must be broken for enough people to warrant its creation.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 3y agoThe sites I am most likely to exclude are the most ad infested. Seems a direct conflict with the bottom line to only show high quality content.
- chilling 3y agoWhile I appreciate the author's work, I suggest ditching Google Search altogether in favor of DuckDuckGo or anything else. At this point I only use Google when I need to buy something, as Google has become an expert in finding products tailored to my needs (but not in checking knowledge/facts - my go to here is ChatGPT/Wikipedia)
- tuwtuwtuwtuw 3y agoHow is this relevant to the post?
- chilling 3y agoIt's just that Google search results are now full of ads, so I suggest changing the search engine altogether and not just blocking certain sites. Does it make it more relevant to you?
- Etheryte 3y agoChatGPT is the last place you should go for facts. It's a language model, not a data model, it only knows what words usually statistically follow another one, it doesn't know anything about facts. Granted, it's very good at sounding like it does, but you never know when it hallucinates.
- chilling 3y agoI am aware of this. But my daily questions these days revolve around TypeScript or something as silly as "what is the average weight of a cat". Back in a days it took like 10 sec to get this from google, but now it's just a pain in the back to open all the websites, accepting cookings... and you know the drill.
- littlecranky67 3y agoUse FastGPT by kagi search. All its statements come with the web source snnoted to research or verfiy the claims. https://kagi.com/fastgpt https://kagi.com/fastgpt
- sagarpatil 3y agoBye bye Quora!
- Takennickname 3y agoThe lack of this feature on Google shows whose interests they truly have at heart.
- ShadowBanThis01 3y agothe REMOVAL of this feature from Google…
- QVVRP4nYz 3y agoThere might be other explanations, thought not necessary better. For example maybe they are following Steve Jobs' dream of single button apps? All not essential features confuse people[0]. Google have already hidden "cached" version link in tiny hamburger menu. Or they assume they know better what the users wants than the users themselves. YouTube straight up ignores dislikes - and will show disliked video in mixes or at first place of search results. If we give Google the benefit of doubt, maybe people just kept accidently blocking useful sites and later complained they couldn't find anything? Thought Steam deals with that perfectly: search results start with disclaimer: "8,875 results match your search. 2,053 titles have been excluded based on your preferences." - and it takes 2 clicks to go back to unfiltered results. [0] - well, at least Gnome project follows that idea, killing any discoverability
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- ayoisaiah 3y agoI'm looking for something like this, but for YouTube search results / recommendations
- kikokikokiko 3y agoYou can do it easily using ublock origin. Just select the div of the video you dont want to see anymore, and append to the filter string something like this :has-text(/channel name that I hate/) I filter any video with less than 1000 views, since youtube started to push insanely small channels to my recommended videos lately. This is the filter to accomplish that, on mobile youtube: m.youtube.com##ytm-rich-item-renderer.fresh-feeds-dismissals:has-text(/0 view|1 view|2 view|3 view|4 view|5 view|6 view|7 view|8 view|9 view/) I have so many filters on my ublock youtube section that nowadays their algo doesn't seem to even bother me so much. I hardly let Youtube show me anything that I would not really like to see. Another anoying thing that started showing up on my feed lately were very old videos, 5, 10, 15 yo videos, with millions of views. Clearly meme worthy garbage. So I started filtering out any video with more than a million views from my feed using the following filter: m.youtube.com##ytm-rich-item-renderer.fresh-feeds-dismissals:has-text(/M views/) I never, ever, watched a single "short" youtube video in my life, so maybe their algo tried to memefy my feed using this alternative path. No way, my time is precious and every single video I watch must add something. To remove "Sponsored", i.e. videos that are really ads, from your feed: m.youtube.com##ytm-rich-item-renderer.fresh-feeds-dismissals:nth-of-type(1):has-text(/Sponsored/) My youtube feed nowadays only shows videos that have between 1001 and 999999 views. To me, its the sweet spot of quality for youtube videos. If you didnt catch the upload on the first week, you'll get it down the line, when it passes the threshold of 1k views. I know I maybe not getting a Veritasium video suggested to me once in a while, since nowadays he tends to get millions of views on the first day already, but once I remember about those channels I really like, I'll manually visit their page and retro watch all the videos I missed in between. Ublock Origin is the single most useful piece of software one can use to keep their cognitive sanity in the modern world.
- nullandvoid 3y agoThat's some great tips thanks for sharing. I've gone nuclear and just have my home perma blocked using newsfeederadicator extension (works across a few sites), and shorts blocked in subscriptions via a ublock origin rule. Are you actually able to use home / reccomendations using this solution (I opted out of both a long time ago for many of the reasons you state), or is it just to fix the terrible search results yt gives?
- squarefoot 3y agoI'm using it since... uh, forgot how much time, anyway it works great to filter out the Pinterest junk that invaded Google Images a few years ago. I just wish there was some similar extension to filter out Ebay sellers from search results based on their shop/user name and/or feedback ratings. Ebay blacklist likely works only on user names, and I'm not sure it is effective when searching as a buyer myself.
- pixelpoet 3y ago+1 to excising the internet cancer that is Pinterest