What does HackerNews think of ublacklist?

ublacklist works with many search engines. A little bit of very easy effort goes a LONG way to cleaning up your results.

https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist

And here's two bonus things you need if you make use of youtube

Sponsorblock. As it says on the tin, automatically skips sponsor sections.

https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock

Dearrow. An open source and crowdsourced tool replace youtubes stupid fucking clickbait title cards, and replaces many titles with better ones. You can contribute!

https://github.com/ajayyy/DeArrow

Texas professor fails entire class from graduating- claiming they used ChatGTP | May 2023

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Cut off a head, two more will take its place

https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist lets you do this anyway, it does help somewhat

Google Search Is Dying (2022) | Mar 2023

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You could use ublacklist[1], it does filtering of search results on the client side. arosh’s list is a good place to start blocking crap.

[1] https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist

[2] https://github.com/arosh?tab=repositories

Ask HN: Is StackOverflow Dying? | Jan 2023

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I use uBlacklist. It supports 10 search engines.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublacklist/pncfbmi...

https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist

ChatGPT won’t replace search engines any time soon | Jan 2023

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You can use uBlacklist[1] and subscribe to custom made blacklists[2] for specific content.

1. https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist 2. https://github.com/rjaus/awesome-ublacklist

Google, please do something with your ads and SEO-spam | Nov 2022

Recommendation: https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist

Poll: Is there a negative stigma toward articles written in Medium? | Oct 2022

I use uBlacklist to prevent medium.com articles from showing up in my Google results:

https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist

More content by people, for people in Search | Aug 2022

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There is no reason to think that a paid search engine like Kagi will get rid of one of it's signature functionality, but if you're interested in an extension for browser: https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist

More content by people, for people in Search | Aug 2022

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https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist

Three areas where Google Search lags behind competitors: code, cooking, travel | Apr 2022

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I use uBlacklist to remove these from my seach results:

https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist

https://blog.probabletrain.com/hide-w3schools-from-search-re...

With some lists to block the SO and Github clones:

https://github.com/arosh/ublacklist-stackoverflow-translatio...

https://github.com/arosh/ublacklist-github-translation

Three areas where Google Search lags behind competitors: code, cooking, travel | Apr 2022

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> Blocks sites you specify from appearing in Google search results This extension prevents the sites you specify from appearing in Google search results.

https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublacklist/pncfbmi...

Mozilla and Open Web Docs Working Together on MDN | Mar 2022

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You can blacklist w3schools by using ublacklist: https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist

There are also lists for blacklisting github and stackoverflow content clone sites.

Show HN: Let's Block It – Custom uBlock Origin Filters Made Easy | Jan 2022

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Reminds me of https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist

Hopefully you will add the startpage.com search engine (has same results as google) too :)

Ask HN: What would make a next-gen search engine? | Dec 2021

What I’d like in a search engine? I’d like existing engines to be sources / indexes, upon which I’d add collaborative curation.

I think uBlacklist is a good implementation.

Braves proposed “goggles” is better, but as yet I don’t believe there are any implementations of it. [2]

[1] https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist

[2] https://brave.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/goggles.pdf