I am currently self-hosting a meta search engine instance (searxng), which allows me combine searches from different engines (e.g. Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc), but also to filter out websites that I don't want to show up.

The only website to make my blacklist so far is slant.co (useless SEO-riddled site that always comes up when I search for software comparisons). I also automatically redirect all reddit.com links to old.reddit.com.

I'm looking to expand this list. So, which websites do you blacklist? Either using software, or just mentally.

  • EthanolParty@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    It's tough because I almost feel like I need a whitelist at this point. 90% of the first page of Google results usually read like AI-generated fluff that doesn't actually even answer my question. There are a handful of websites I trust now to give me real information and not just clickbait SEO nonsense.

    I'm at the point where I add "reddit" to the end of every search just to try and find something that was written by a real person. Maybe someday I can start adding "lemmy" instead.

  • Ghoelian@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    codegrepper.com and all its shitty clones.

    All they do is scrape websites like stack overflow and github issues and present them in a more shitty way, and they somehow manage to get ranked pretty high.

    • dexahtm@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      https://www.grepper.com/images/reviews/review2.png "Review" on their own page. So obviously fake (alignment is off and it doesn't follow fonts?) Plus, they misspelled their own name. This has got to be a joke

      Edit: It may not be fake but i hate this website so i'd like to imagine it is

  • mat3ck@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I've been using a Firefox extension instead that has fairly good filters by default, because I kept getting crap results when looking at technical questions (ie. landing on over-simplified examples without details instead of official documentation).

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

    They publish some subscription lists of things blocked that you can chose from: splogs of GitHub/Stack overflow, Pinterest... And then you can add custom blocks directly from your results list (Quora...). It can be a nice point to start with to use their filter even out of the extension imo.

  • cmysmiaczxotoy@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I don't blacklist on the ip level but I do use a userscript to blacklist domains from showing up in my search results

    https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/1682-google-hit-hider-by-domain-search-filter-block-sites

    These are the domains currently blocked

    9to5google.com
about.fb.com
about.instagram.com
business.instagram.com
cnet.com
developer.android.com
developers.google.com
ebay.com
facebook.com
facebookbrand.com
fileproinfo.com
gadgets.ndtv.com
guidebooks.google.com
help.instagram.com
lifehacker.com
microsoft.com
orangefreesounds.com
research.fb.com
rover.ebay.com
support.google.com
support.ring.com
twitter.com
www.addictivetips.com
www.androidauthority.com
www.androidheadlines.com
www.collectorsweekly.com
www.digitaltrends.com
www.howtogeek.com
www.instagram.com
www.lifewire.com
www.quora.com
www.storyblocks.com
www.theverge.com
    • dexahtm@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      I want to so bad but i end up finding answers there so often and using it for human responses i can't. Damn You reddit.

  • ArgentCorvid [Iowa]@midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    *://picclick.com/*

    Just reposts old ebay listings as far as I can tell. I guess it could come in handy if you want some historical price data or something, but it mostly just craps up the search results.

  • N-E-N@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I’ve never considered black listing a site before tbh. Do you guys find it worth the effort when you could just, not click on the links?

  • Fleppensteyn@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    I'd be happy if there is a way to block webshops. You can block e.g. Amazon but then there will be another shop in its place.

    I wasn't so happy with Searx but I think I'll have a look at SearXNG if blocking is an option

    • mim@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      In SearXNG you can redirect, or block domains (but you still need to define them). You need to enable the "Hostname replace" pluging in the setting.yaml

      enabled_plugins:
  - 'Hostname replace'  # see hostname_replace configuration below

      And then define the rules like this:

      hostname_replace:
#   My redirects
  '(.*\.)?reddit\.com$': 'old.reddit.com'
#   My filters
  'slant\.co': false
  'dailymail\.co\.uk': false
    • Addfwyn@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      You don't want to use a wiki that makes your battery start to visibly drain away?

  • PonyOfWar@pawb.social
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    1 year ago

    I never bothered actually creating blacklists for my browser. Mentally though, those weird websites that only rehost stack overflow replies.