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I guess the author's "boiling hatred to bad tech support articles" leads to some overreach
by mrbluecoat 2y ago
I guess the author's "boiling hatred to bad tech support articles" leads to some overreach
- popcar2 2y agoThis doesn't block you from visiting MSN, but it does stop their articles from appearing in search. The reason is that MSN just re-hosts articles from other sites rather than provide anything of value. MSN posts often outrank their original source because Microsoft is pushing it hard on Windows/Bing/Edge. For example: https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/jodie-foster-heckled-as-she-wins-fifth-golden-globe/ar-AA1x1F2y https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/jodie-foster-heckled-a... is just a re-hosted version https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/jodie-foster-golden-globes-2025-winners-b2674295.html https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/jod... My hope in hiding MSN is to allow the original sources to rise back up to the top.
- qingcharles 2y agoMy small rebuttal to that is that msn.com occasionally has articles they've sucked in that are paywalled on the original sites. But I have archive.is for the most part to get around that issue.
- roskelld 2y agoI'm going to have a look at this. I currently run a script that adds `-site:msn.com` to all of my DDG searches. It's kinda ugly.
- qingcharles 2y agomsn.com is actually useful from time-to-time as they have syndicated articles which are otherwise stuck behind paywalls on other sites.