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Which sites do you blacklist from your internet searches? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am currently self-hosting a meta search engine instance (searxng), which allows me combine searches from different engines (e.g. Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc), but also to filter out websites that I don't want to show up.

The only website to make my blacklist so far is slant.co (useless SEO-riddled site that always comes up when I search for software comparisons). I also automatically redirect all reddit.com links to old.reddit.com.

I'm looking to expand this list. So, which websites do you blacklist? Either using software, or just mentally.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Geeksforgeeks.org

The kicker was the aggressive popups to login and share your location.

At least w3schools made a effort to improve.

I typically Blocklist it. But when I'm coaching juniors and see them search, I remember how annoyed I am with that site.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

geeksforgeeks

I've just killed the popup with uBlock and it's pretty usable, was driving me mad before though, fuck that shit

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

tutorialspoint is similarly bad, they are mostly SEOed sites. Sometimes also giving wrong or misleading information.