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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.

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[–] shapesandstuff@feddit.de 232 points 1 year ago (5 children)
[–] sprl@lemm.ee 101 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I’d add Quora to that list of fuck you websites

[–] Tikiporch@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

They added Quora+ subscription service now, you have to pay to see the actually correct answers. Free only gets you wrong answers.

[–] ultratiem@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The worst, hey we noticed you got a really hard to solve problem, well we got the answer right here, but we’re gonna dim it till you make an account, oh sorry that’s not really the answer thanks for the account sucker!

[–] mctit@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I made the mistake of making an account one time. Unsubscribing from all the shit they email is an unbelievably annoying task.

[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's the worst. There's even a browser extension to blacklist them: unpinterested.

[–] livus@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

I had to get that because I got so tired of having to put minus pinterest in all my image searches.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 year ago

I don't explicitly block any, but I usually avoid clicking on pinterest and quora links. From experience, I never get what I'm looking for even without the annoying user interface.

[–] lemonadebunny@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What do people not like about Pinterest? I've actually found them very useful for finding pictures of my niche subjects

[–] shapesandstuff@feddit.de 27 points 1 year ago

You cannot just open the image. You must log in to even see most images. Even working around this its scaled to tiny resolution. All content stolen/copied with zero credit/source but their seo outcompetes the original sources.

[–] nostalgicgamerz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean sometimes Pinterest has images and if you use inspect element you can bypass all that shit

On mobile I 100% block Pinterest

[–] shapesandstuff@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

Most of the time its still very low res when i did that.