More content by people, for people in Search

Re:More content by people, for people in Search by null_object on Friday August 19, 2022 @05:32AM (#32519038)

Another poster has already suggested `uBlacklist` so I won't waste bandwidth by repeating the link, but I want to underline the utility of this extension, because it's transformed my experience of using Google search for code problems.

Before using this, I was finding the first page of my search results were overwhelmed with StackOverflow-scrapers, which returned SO answers reformatted into some sort of garbage and unreadable 'blog-post'.

Nowadays, after blocking twenty/thirty/fifty(?) of these sites, I get to where I want as fast as I did 10 years ago.

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Re:More content by people, for people in Search by nextaccountic on Friday August 19, 2022 @05:36AM (#32519065)

Could you share the url list?

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Re:More content by people, for people in Search by hurflmurfl on Friday August 19, 2022 @05:41AM (#32519088)

There's a public ruleset for this: https://github.com/arosh/ublacklist-stackoverflow-translatio...

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Re:More content by people, for people in Search by nextaccountic on Friday August 19, 2022 @05:44AM (#32519110)

Nice!

If anyone want to share other such lists, however subjective, I would be grateful

edit: found another one, https://github.com/arosh/ublacklist-github-translation

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Re:More content by people, for people in Search by NoMAD76 on Friday August 19, 2022 @06:19AM (#32519284)

Also you can use this for uBlock https://letsblock.it

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Re:More content by people, for people in Search by nextaccountic on Friday August 19, 2022 @09:07AM (#32520499)

What's the difference from letblockit to ublacklist? Is letblockit affiliated to ublock origin in some way?

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Re:More content by people, for people in Search by NoMAD76 on Friday August 19, 2022 @10:16AM (#32521226)

Don't think they are affiliated, it's just something that I mainly use as a companion for uBlock to help me quickly generate filters etc.

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Re:More content by people, for people in Search by nicbou on Friday August 19, 2022 @08:14AM (#32520045)

You can also use it to block paywalled and clickbait content. For example, you can safely ignore anything from cnet.com or digitaltrends.com. There's a few niche-specific sites in my blocklist.

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