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Re:Forbes Site, After Begging You Turn Off Adblocker, Serves... by XCSme on Friday April 08, 2016 @11:51AM (#11455542)
Every time I reached the Forbes website I was really wondering if there is any option to hide a website from Google search results. So, I would like to never have any result from forbes.com (even if I search forbes). Do you know if there are Chrome Extensions or settings you can turn on in Google Search to hide certain websites?
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Re:Forbes Site, After Begging You Turn Off Adblocker, Serves... by NathanKP on Friday April 08, 2016 @11:56AM (#11455596)
This is the official Google extension for doing that: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist...
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Re:Forbes Site, After Begging You Turn Off Adblocker, Serves... by r1ch on Friday April 08, 2016 @12:32PM (#11455925)
Any idea why this needs such wide permissions like managing my apps and extensions and reading my history?
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Re:Forbes Site, After Begging You Turn Off Adblocker, Serves... by sosuke on Friday April 08, 2016 @12:19PM (#11455818)
Wow! Thank you very much I never thought of looking for an extension. For a very short time I found that feature in my search results directly. Then it just went away.
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Re:Forbes Site, After Begging You Turn Off Adblocker, Serves... by dunham on Friday April 08, 2016 @12:30PM (#11455911)
Yeah, Google did that for a short time. I used to use it to filter out content farms. They've gotten better at filtering content farms since then, and dropped the feature - probably because it was too expensive resource-wise to personalize results like that.
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Re:Forbes Site, After Begging You Turn Off Adblocker, Serves... by FilterSweep on Friday April 08, 2016 @01:33PM (#11456364)
Not sure if it's very functional. I blocked W3Schools + Wildcards (because I'd rather read MDN) and after a few months of working their results continued appearing at the top of my page.

There are a few blog posts around the net where some users have tried similar and found that W3 schools was also serving up content from another place that had not been blocked.

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Re:Forbes Site, After Begging You Turn Off Adblocker, Serves... by ValentineC on Friday April 08, 2016 @11:55AM (#11455587)
There's a Chrome extension (by Google, no less) for this!

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist...

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Re:Forbes Site, After Begging You Turn Off Adblocker, Serves... by Animats on Friday April 08, 2016 @01:29PM (#11456335)
Now that's a thought. In our Ad Limiter add-on (Firefox and Chrome), we have the ability to delete and reorder items in Google Search results. Right now, we only do that for Google's ads. Maybe we should be more aggressive.

Is there a list of sites with ad blocker detectors? We could easily move such sites to the bottom of search results.

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Re:Forbes Site, After Begging You Turn Off Adblocker, Serves... by Matt3o12_ on Friday April 08, 2016 @02:01PM (#11456596)
Well, you can remove Forbes temporarily from the search results:

    Whatever -site:forbes.com
Of course this would not scale well, because you can't block all sites. This is better then the chrome extension that only removes the HTML because if the first 10 results were from Forbes, you will not get an empty page.
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Re:Forbes Site, After Begging You Turn Off Adblocker, Serves... by readams on Friday April 08, 2016 @02:07PM (#11456644)
There used to be but Google got rid of it. I used it to block the worst google spam offenders back in the day like expert sex change and huffington post.
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