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Which sites do you blacklist from your internet searches? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 235 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Pinterest. Fuck pinterest.

[–] [email protected] 101 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

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

[–] otter 17 points 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years 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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

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

[–] lemonadebunny 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years 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.