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

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by mim@lemmy.sdf.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is in my book. It's awful

It frequently compares things like apples vs oranges. And the comparison is just wrong. A real example is comparing a photo editing app vs a photo album app. Or something ridiculous like MySQL vs CSS.

[–] SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you take it for what it is, a listing of related apps, it's not that bad imo

[–] NecessaryWeevil@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But the name of the website is “Alternative To,” not “Related To.” For example, if I’m looking for an alternative to Photoshop, I don’t want to see recommended video editors or 3D modeling apps. That is wasting my time with auto-generated page filler.

[–] SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org 2 points 1 year ago

With a little sifting it's helped me several times /shrug