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The ones thing I want more than anything from google or DuckDuckGo or anyone really is the ability to give a list of domains and never have their results show up in my searches. I know I can do this on a per search basis but I want it to be a configurable setting.

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UBlacklist is a plugin that does this. It's so great to be able to hide all those sites that just cache Git issues and SO posts.

Oh man, this plugin is going to save me hours of time over the next 30 years. Goodbye forever, cplusplus.com

Just to add to that, uBlacklist has a power feature called subscriptions. Which is massively under utilised.

It enables a collaborative effort in blocking spam / low value domains.

If you make a block list, please submit it to the list I’ve made: https://github.com/rjaus/awesome-ublacklist

(There’s no great subscription discovery as yet)

I installed it and it's—ok? For search results where the spam overwhelms the signal (it used to be able to do a decent reverse phone lookup by putting a phone number into Google), you end up with empty pages or mostly empty pages in the search results. Better than nothing, but it really should be a feature from the search engine, not a browser plugin.

I used to have a text document on my desktop containing a list of domains that contained autogenerated content, each with a minus in front, like:

-stupidautogeneratedcontent1.com -stupidautogeneratedcontent2.com etc

I figured sooner or later Google would pick up the signal but I think instead they just started ignoring my "- requests" as I stopped using them. edit: or maybe they fix the problem. Spam sites used to be a problem during the early decline of Google. I think what happened was that problem actually almost disappeared for me and was replaced by irrelevant results from non-spam-sites

Edit: mahalo.com was one of those, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahalo.com

I’ve you tried -site:site.com? I think that still works.

Just filter out results using uBlock Origin like this:

   google.*##.g:has(a[href*="example.com"])

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