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Comment by infamia

2 years ago

Try uBlacklist, it's like uBlock, but for search results.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublacklist/

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublacklist/pncfbmia...

You can sync the settings and your personal blocklist to either Dropbox or Google Drive. It also has the ability to subscribe to blocklists. Mind, you need to manually turn on search engines and subscribe to lists. The uBlacklist subscriptions setting doesn't have any built-in feeds yet though. :(

edit: THere are some feeds on the uBlacklist site though. https://iorate.github.io/ublacklist/subscriptions

edit edit: Found an even better list of feeds. https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter#other-fi...

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bayindirh  2 years ago

This is a feature of Kagi already. You can promote or blacklist domains in your search results.

  • KomoD  2 years ago

    But I can't do regexes, wildcards or anything like that as far as I can see, like I can in uBlacklist

    And it seems like they also have a 1000 domain limit?

  • EA-3167  2 years ago

    Kagi is just the best, it feels like Google did before a decade+ of enshittification and ad tech.

    • l8_to_catch_up  2 years ago

      I just tried it (free account), and it felt underwhelming, not many search results, or particularly interesting ones, for the image and video stuff I searched.

      There was little to no spam, though, but not much to look at either. Maybe it might be useful when searching for stuff that usually has high amount of confusing spam, but otherwise not really useful for me...

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tentacleuno  2 years ago

uBlacklist is absolutely excellent: I've been using it for a few years now, with absolutely no problems.

Quick tip: turn on the 'Skip the "Block this site" dialog', and disable 'Hide the "Block this site" links' settings -- they make it much quicker to block spam websites (of which there are many on regular search engines).

  • skygazer  2 years ago

    Just today I was looking for an extension just to block Quora from search results. (Talk about a useless site that seems to uselessly outrank Wikipedia on google lately — what on earth is Google up to?) I’m thankful I saw your and your parent’s post.

    • carlhjerpe  2 years ago

      When Quora was new I followed some topics, got to read interesting answers to interesting questions, but then some kind of enshittification happened. I've blocked it in Kagi now.

gzer0  2 years ago

Appreciate you sharing this; I've been searching for something similar for quite some time.

KomoD  2 years ago

I use uBlacklist with my own blacklists and Google has been pretty usable, it's great.