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Comment by lukegb | Hacker News Reader

Some examples of these seem to be:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=hillary+issues

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=bernie+issues

I'm referring to the postings with the photo and the checkmark and the "On Google" text, not the ones pulled from news sources, like the ones for "trump issues"

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I don't see that from Europe. Could you post a screenshot?

Here you go (from my mobile): http://i.imgur.com/X1M5YZn.jpg

Whoa, I've never seen this privacy reminder box before! Must be an EU-specific thing to try and dissuade them from getting skinned alive by EU privacy laws.

Nope, I see it in the US here.

It's an EU URL though.

I'm thrilled to report that uBlock Origin completely strips out this spam on the search results page. I was worried that it might take some time to filter out this noise from the search results page, but apparently not!

If you search for widgets, why is relevant info from the foremost expert on widgets spam?

So uBlock is actually blocking a site's own content? I've heard a lot about false positives but this takes the price.

No content is hidden from my side[1] -- I am using default filter lists. Poster must have some custom filters, or using some other 3rd-party filter list which causes this. The logger would tell why content is blocked on his side.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/2M1D6Uj.png

I'm using uBlock Origin and still see these.

You could argue that AdWords is also Google's own content..

Someone else was reporting that it's not showing up - I use unlock Origin on desktop and it was appearing for me.

Screen cap from mobile: http://i.imgur.com/X1M5YZn.jpg

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