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The fact that registration is required for no obvious reason kinda makes the site a no-go zone for me. I only occasionally land there via Google Image search. Maybe I'm just not the right target audience, since I'm not a social media guy. For my specialized interests there are better aggregators such as specific subreddits / HN. Forcing registration is part of the user retention strategy, but for me it makes using the site a non-starter.

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the site disgusts me because it pollutes google image searches so thoroughly and combined with the mentioned required registration just makes it poison overall.

when I have to filter a site to get results I can use there is a problem and there needs to be an easy method to permanent filter such sites.

I don't even click on google image search results that point to pinterest. They can find another sucker to register on their site.

I wish I could filter Pinterest and more importantly Quora from all search results forever. I consider those sites deceptive and malicious spam.

Google released a Chrome addon that filters sites, but this doesn't help users of other browsers and it hadn't been updated in over three years.

Google briefly had a feature (back in the ExpertSexChange days) where you could ban a domain from your search results. I miss that feature. Now Pinterest gets blocked at DNS via pi-hole. At least it is something.

This works well for filtering search results:

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/1682-google-hit-hider-by-d...

I am using Firefox and use "SearchMage - Search Enhancer" add-on for that

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/searchmage-se...

I found it here a few months ago actually and am quite happy with it, It has a few features that include infinite scroll that you can turn off or on.

For now I just manually add "-pinterest" to my query when I am looking for images.

I swear, like 50% of Google Image results come from Pintrest. They are all mostly stolen/reposts too. It's incredibly annoying.

> They are all mostly stolen/reposts too.

That is perhaps the most frustrating part of it. Often I'm looking for the original source of something and then Pinterest comes inbetween like some viral search spam.

(Kind of makes me wonder if the early days of printing press with no copyright were comparable)

Not only is it forced registration, it's unusable without a fuckin BROWSER EXTENSION that can watch all of your traffic to any site. HELL no.

What do you mean by this? (honest question, I dont use pinterest so this sounds weird)

Basically, even if you have an account, logging in to the site isn't enough. You can’t really save items or do anything without using Pinterest’s browser extension and doing everything through there. And this browser extension (like most browser extensions in general) can see the address and contents of every page you visit on the web, regardless of VPNs or incognito mode or HTTPs or anything like that, because it’s code that’s now built into the browser itself (which can also see all those things because that's its function).

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