Is there a word for this tendency to say, "it's someone else's job" as a justification for doing nothing at all to help or improve one's own circumstances? I see more and more of it in the public discourse over the last years and it kind of bothers me. I see it a lot in conversations related to poverty or climate change, but it is as we see here by no means exclusive to those topics.

To the original replyer: you could wait for Google to do something, but if they were going to fix the listicle issue, and it were fixable on their end, they'd probably have done it by now. I'm disappointed in the situation too but if there is a workable solution on our end it would be silly to ignore it because fixing the problem is someone else's job.

To the OP: I worry that the number of domains pumping out crap might be far greater than we know, and that might hamper the effectiveness of this. If the collaborative block list ever got big enough you might also have to deal with spam. But I think it would be a great thing to try. This is one of those issues that annoys me, but it's just below my action potential threshold. My biggest objection right now is the spammy recipe websites.