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Not surprising, as the feature hasn't worked for quite some time, despite still being available to configure within your settings. I am disappointed however, be
by bittermang 14y ago
Not surprising, as the feature hasn't worked for quite some time, despite still being available to configure within your settings. I am disappointed however, because there are quite a few sites on the Internet that I would much rather not see at all, ever again. They are the noise in my search for signal in my Google search results. And the entire point of switching to Google way back in the day was the quality of their search results versus what was available in the late 90s.
Being able to personally fine tune those results myself, outside of what a robot thought to "personally" customize my experience to, was a great feature. Suggesting I use a third party plugin for a browser I don't use is hardly a compromise or a solution, and does nothing for my Google search results on mobile platforms where that plugin is not now nor will likely ever be available.
- Shank 14y agoPersonal Blacklist is an official Google extension, it just doesn't sync with anything or save to a database. At least for my purposes, I don't need it anywhere but my desktop machine to help out in result pruning (experts exchange, fixya). Their offered download link doesn't even work for me, it just notifies me of its shutdown.
- SoftwareMaven 14y agoAre you logged in? There is a link at the bottom of the page to download it. It isn't very prominent; I almost missed it.
- lukeholder 14y agoim not getting it either: http://d.pr/i/CMx0 http://d.pr/i/CMx0
- shurcooL 14y agoNeither am I. Could it be because I don't have any sites blocked? It's either that, or a bug... And I can't really know which.
- zorlem 14y ago>Their offered download link doesn't even work for me, it just notifies me of its shutdown. After you go to that link and read the notification, there is another link to download the blocklist as a plain-text file. Mine contained a number of domains I've added during the years. It's quite interesting to see all the domains I've blocked so far :)
- elmofromok 14y agoMine was surprisingly short.. www.w3schools.com
- hackerboos 14y agoWell I had all those sites that scrape StackOverflow added to my list. I love that SO uses a CC license but it does have some unintended consequences.
- vwinsyee 14y agoIs there a public list of such site? I think I'd find it quite useful (for my own blocking).
- hackerboos 14y agoI don't think there is. I did it on a case-by-case basis.
- oe 14y agoThey also use these domains: w3schools.com ww.w3schools.com wwww.w3schools.com Probably others too.
- anotherbadlogin 14y ago"experts exchange, fixya" HA, yes, not being able to block these assholes really degrades Google's search results. Not to mention the dozens of spam sites re-hosting Stack Overflow content embedded in a sea of ads. GJ, Google. You suck at marketing basically everything, and now you've degraded the one thing you did right. And this is just Google's latest offense. They already degraded their product by eliminating the ability to put "+" in front of a term to require it in results. I might actually look at Bing now.
- weareconvo 14y agoI can't even count the number of times I've attempted to block every variant of "w3schools".
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