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Which sites do you blacklist from your internet searches? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by mim to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[-] sprl@lemm.ee 101 points 1 year ago

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.

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