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Ask HN: How would you remove Reddit.com from all search results?
Since Reddit blocked VPNs, every reddit.com result has become a waste of space and attention on results pages.
Since I don't plan on changing my security posture for the sake of whatever privacy violation they are planning, how would you recommend removing all Reddit.com domain results from search engines like google, duckduckgo, startpage, and presearch?
- golimway 2y agoVPN usage growth is only accelerating, so any tips would be helpful to a large percentage of internet users.
- sarcasmatwork 2y agoBlock the domain? https://www.lkhrs.com/blog/2022/04/block-domains-from-search/ https://www.lkhrs.com/blog/2022/04/block-domains-from-search...
- golimway 2y agoYes blocking the domain and subdomains would be ideal. I'm surprised to see uBlock has this ability, thanks for the info.
- golimway 2y agoArticle snippet: Let’s Block It! is a handy site to generate content filters for uBlock Origin, and you can create an account and share your list, which can be added just like any other uBlock Origin list. You’ll want to use their tool to make your own search results filter, which provides the option to easily add in some exhaustive filters from the uBlock-Origin-dev-filter project. The filters support result filtering on Bing, DuckDuckGo, Google, Kagi, Searx, and Startpage.
- stop50 2y agoOn firefox i use a addon called ublacklist. i use it mainly to remove stackoverflow clones from appearing in search results.
- davidcox143 2y agoKagi [1] is great for this and is IMO the best search engine in general these days. [1] https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/website-info-personalized-results.html https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/website-info-personalize...
- justaj 2y agoI'm just wondering how Reddit managed to do that. Do VPN companies have to register their endpoints in some kind of a VPN database so that Reddit can flag them as IP addresses coming from VPN companies? How otherwise would Reddit know that a particular IP address belongs to a VPN company?
- panic_canine 2y agoYou could infer if there were a lot of activity or a lot of disparate activity from a single IP address that it belonged to a VPN.
- justaj 2y agoDoesn't this go out of the windows with IPv6?
- is_true 2y ago-reddit.com
- nicbou 2y agouBlacklist is perfect for this. It's a fantastic extension. It also removes a lot of other spam results.
- nothercastle 2y agoYou might as well turn off Google then because that’s the only human content it can still reliably search