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Re:Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public pro... by whatshisface on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @01:02PM (#21389414)
It would be cool if this could be extended to automatically clearing those junk sites off Google's results, maybe by querying for a few extra pages, deleting the garbage, and then re-assembling them into fewer pages. Google spam filters would be great, I could also put in a rule to eliminate any page title that starts with a number ("Ten great ways to...").
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Re:Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public pro... by lethologica on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @03:58PM (#21391343)
Google used to have a way to block sites from search results. Do they still have that option?
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Re:Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public pro... by blacksmith_tb on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @04:39PM (#21391731)
They did offer the Personal Blocklist extension[1] for Chrome, long ago. But it's been sunsetted, there are some alternatives.

1: https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/new-chrome-extension...

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Re:Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public pro... by byuu on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @07:13PM (#21393081)
I wrote a userscript to do this if you're interested:

https://code.byuu.org/google

It blocks search and image results by pattern, and also removes the URL tracker wrapping wherever possible.

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