What does HackerNews think of uBlock-Origin-dev-filter?

Although boosting cant be done, blocking can be achieved using ublockorigin and custom filters. Here is an awesome spam filter list that removes spam and copycat domains from google and ddg searches[1]

[1]https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter

For those on Google or DDG, here is my uBlock filter with hundreds of GitHub/StackOverflow copycats: https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter

It blocks copycats and hide them from multiple search engines. You may also use the list with uBlacklist.

Here is my uBlock filter with hundreds of GitHub/StackOverflow copycats: https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter

It blocks copycats and hide them from multiple search engines. You may also use the list with uBlacklist.

- Google is not the police force of the web.

- You, I, and many others don't like those sites but they are legit so, unless they really do shady things that go against Google's TOS, you can't really expect any action to be taken against them.

- https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter

There are custom filters for development you can import in ublock origin targeted to remove SEO spam in Google/DDG [1]

[1] https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter

Here are some well-maintained filterlists for ublock-origin that remove github/stack overflow copycats from search results

https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter

I'm not sure if it's the dislike button being gone or just more and more brain-dead people passively consuming content. A lot of the videos is other re-hashed online content, but hasn't it been this trajectory for years now though?

It seems like humanity is going mass-illiterate and needs everything in video-format. How video has displaced text is horrific to me. Instead of reading the official docs people browse "How to install..." videos, that are mostly poor and just someone babbling non-sense.

I would never for the life of me look up tech info, error messages etc on Youtube in the first place. But since people look up everything apparently, other people cater to it. A click is a click is a click.

Slightly off-topic maybe: I've blocked most of the interface of Youtube via ublock origin long ago. Youtube's homepage is only a search-bar for me. When looking at videos I see no suggestions, I use the "Enhancer for Youtube" Add-on to disable auto-play, disable comments and auto-expand video descriptions, use "Cookie Auto Delete" Add-on to always clear my cookies when I leave the site and am never logged into the site in the first place.

In case someone doesn't know, you can follow youtube-channels via rss, it's https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=

You can find the channel ID by going to a video and then clicking on the channel, channel ID is in the URL. I think it's far superior than subscribing any normal way. Let saving links be handled by the rss reader of your choice.

For search engine results, people here might also want to consider https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter

Shameless plug for the Let's Block It project: we have a filter template to selectively remove domains from search results: https://letsblock.it/filters/search-results

For the Stackoverflow / Github clones, we partner with https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter and their lists are available as presets at the bottom of the filter configuration.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30374905 which in turn points to https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter

Doesn't answer you question. I wish google would use their enormous resources to fight this copy spam (and maybe its so hard that they are but you can't tell).

https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter is a pretty well maintained list specifically to block copycat developer sites.

It exists, https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter

For developers, you can remove some spam websites from Google and other search engines, with these uBlock filters: https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter