uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results

I have said this before, will say it again. This can be fully achieved with uBlock and custom filters like the one maintained by quenhus[1] that can block websites across multiple search engines. You don&#x27;t need to increase the vulnerability surface by installing yet another extension on your browser.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;quenhus&#x2F;uBlock-Origin-dev-filter">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;quenhus&#x2F;uBlock-Origin-dev-filter</a>

Google used to have own extension for chrome called &quot;personal Blocklist&quot;, which would allow users to block specific domains from eve appearing in search results. It was great to remove instagram&#x2F;LinkedIn&#x2F;quora and various stack overflow clones.<p>But as all good things, it was killed by google<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;killedby.tech&#x2F;google&#x2F;personal-blocklist&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;killedby.tech&#x2F;google&#x2F;personal-blocklist&#x2F;</a>

Just switch to Kagi. Google is, alas, over.<p>As of this morning I have fully deGoogled my laptop. Kagi, Firefox, Infomaniak kSuite. Based on my research, with more than 500GB of storage needs kSuite is the only Google Suite replacement with a competitive offer. Proton seems to only offer additional storage space in the form of 500GB per business account for 11 EUR a month. This is like 4-5 times the Google price. mailbox.org Premium is €0.20 per 5GB or €40 per TB per month. For Standard it&#x27;s double. kSuite is 6.58 EUR a month for 3TB so I went with them. Signup was not smooth but once that was done it is actually working quite well. One snag: be careful with your domain transfer, back up your existing zone file before transferring, I&#x27;ve not considered this but your old provider will delete the records. Luckily Namecheap support found a backup for my domain despite chat claiming it is gone.

A comment suggesting kagi and detailing how they are happy with it in 3 2 ..

While I appreciate the author&#x27;s work, I suggest ditching Google Search altogether in favor of DuckDuckGo or anything else. At this point I only use Google when I need to buy something, as Google has become an expert in finding products tailored to my needs (but not in checking knowledge&#x2F;facts - my go to here is ChatGPT&#x2F;Wikipedia)

I&#x27;d like to use the opposite approach: top-list search hit results on websites that I&#x27;ve bookmarked another subpath of or visited before. Difficulty being: when to stop requesting later result pages to get a hit. Both Firefox moz_places and Chromes Default&#x2F;History sqlite databases have the info to populate such a list.

I&#x27;m looking for something like this, but for YouTube search results &#x2F; recommendations

It also works on other search engines, which is good to know.<p>And it has blocklist subscriptions, but none selectable by default.<p>It would be nice if someone could make a blocklist to make Google or DDG similar in low spam to Kagi.<p>Pretty good stuff.

Blocking medium.com has been the best thing I&#x27;ve done with an extension in 2023. Thanks uBlacklist!

I&#x27;m using it since... uh, forgot how much time, anyway it works great to filter out the Pinterest junk that invaded Google Images a few years ago.<p>I just wish there was some similar extension to filter out Ebay sellers from search results based on their shop&#x2F;user name and&#x2F;or feedback ratings. Ebay blacklist likely works only on user names, and I&#x27;m not sure it is effective when searching as a buyer myself.

Curiously, I was just playing with it yesterday.<p>In the end I decided to just replace it with uBlock origin plus some filters [0], [1], [2].<p>While this solution doesn&#x27;t add a convenient button in the UI to show the hidden domains and to quickly block them, for some reason this extension didn&#x27;t work if I had javascript disabled, while the native uBlock one did.<p>I believe there&#x27;s also a userscript that does something similar, but I never tried it.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;letsblock.it&#x2F;filters" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;letsblock.it&#x2F;filters</a> [1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;quenhus&#x2F;uBlock-Origin-dev-filter">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;quenhus&#x2F;uBlock-Origin-dev-filter</a> [2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rotgruengelb&#x2F;BlockModReposting">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rotgruengelb&#x2F;BlockModReposting</a>

Google used to have this feature built-in, I dont understand why they got rid of it.

Interesting. Looks useful for the many sites that refuse to work unless I turn off my stalking preventer (or ad blocker as they call it) or have a metric shed load of clicks to not opt in or accept &quot;legitimate interest&quot; (will save me hitting back &#x2F; close every time I see the &quot;Admiral: Privacy and Consent Management Platform&quot; logo, amongst others).

For anyone looking for something a tad more user-friendly, I use the extension Google Hit Hider to accomplish this. Works great. You can sort and filter the list of blocked URLs, de-duplicate, and do all sorts of useful manipulations. Works well on DDG and Google, haven&#x27;t tested other engines.

This is way cooler than what I am using, in fact a couple of weeks ago I asked X&#x2F;twitter about a solution to this same issue and someone suggested this: &quot;Highlight or Hide&quot; on the Chrome extensions store - which is actually really simple but more manual work...

Bye bye Quora!

Must be a new form of advertising - paying people to add comments to news articles with the word &quot;kagi&quot; everywhere and some sort of anti-google phrasing.

You used to be able to do this right on Google’s search-results page.<p>Taking it away was just another “up yours” from Google to you.

There is also letsblock.it I found it through HN and it has worked well for me.

this should be defacto in google, quora.com should be blocked 100% from google search results, so does all the payment requiring news websites like ny.com, but they aren&#x27;t because they are all the same..

Or just switch to Kagi, it&#x27;s far better than Google anyway.

Mmh.. Negation curation.. Can this work against seo?

This is asking for permission to access my personal data on more than 190 sites. I don&#x27;t think so, buddy.

The lack of this feature on Google shows whose interests they truly have at heart.