I hate Pinterest with a passion. If you want to find reference images for whatever topic, all you get is the medium res crap with a 'make an account' pop-up instead of the original source they stole it from. I think alphabet or whatever will acquire it in the near future (or have they already?) because there is just no other explanation for letting Pinterest poison image search that much.

Image search is practically dead and Pintrest singlehandedly killed it. I just use Wikimedia Commons now.

works fine on DuckDuckGo

Whenever I put a google search down, and see one page of Pinterest on there I immediately go back to the search box and go for; “-site:pinterest.*”. I absolutely hate that site with a passion.

Even though I have the app and an account, I still despise using it. They break things like zoom and saving images. Clicking on something interesting takes you to…a site that doesn’t actually have that.

I truly don’t understand how Pinterest is so popular when it’s also so awful. Tumblr was so much better until Verizon destroyed it with management incompetence.

Unpinterested is an extension do do this automatically

Is there a Google option to perma-ban a domain?

Maybe a place I can upload a HOSTS file?

Or an extension that adds this to every search?

There is: uBlacklist[1]. I've been searching for the exact same thing to get rid of Indian tutorial scamsites, bad GitHub and StackOverflow clones and, of course, Pinterest results :) Can recommend.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublacklist/pncfbmi...

You can try this extension. It was forked from a project once maintained and abandoned by Google themselves.

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

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/personal-bloc...

I couldn't put my vague dislike for Pinterest into words until this: you have it exactly.

I fully agree, but do they count as social media? I kinda categorize them as crowdsourced SEO spam