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Every google search has to have either "+reddit" or "+stackoverflow" depending on what I'm trying to accomplish.

And EVERY search for products needs to say "-pinterest".

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Another example: music videos may require "-reaction -reacting". But it's the same or worse with DuckDuckGo.

The information landscape is hostile, your attention is valuable, so there is motivation to hijack it.

Sadly there’s disproportionate value. Your attention is only worth a few cents, the criminals' (SEOers, scammer ps etc) cost is miniscule per user, but the cost to each user of the misinformation and wasted time is larger.

Like breaking a shop window to steal something small and easily transported/resold.

I think this is why there is value in moderated spaces like reddit [complex feelings here], the moderators and team/tribe mentality ensure that there is informational value to at least that group [more complex feelings here].

For music, also adding -extended feels necessary. Along with -60fps for anything anime related.

Oh my GOD. The 60 FPS 4K memescaling shouldn't drive me as insane as it does, but jesus christ, the amount of times I have wanted to show someone some opening, gone on YouTube, and literally everything is some tweened upscale.

I usually give up and end up having to go and StackOverflow the ffmpeg filters I'll never remember for burning in subs just to clip it myself -- `ffmpeg -i episode.mkv -vf "subtitles='episode.mkv':si=0" -c:v libx264 -preset slow -crf 18 -c:a aac_at -b:a 320k -ss start_duration -t opening_duration output.mp4` [1].

I think it bothers me even more given anime is rarely even natively fully 1080P 29.97/30 FPS, let alone 4K 60.

I try my best to live and let live, but it's my biggest pet peeve. It drives me nuts that basically all TV manufacturers do this too now by default -- everything I've purchased over the past ~10-12 years or so comes preset with """"smooth""" motion and a billion other video "correction" modes enabled, despite it just artifacting or making everything look straight up worse [2].

I'm genuinely really curious, does anyone here on HN use and enjoy those modes? Maybe there is something I'm missing.

Or maybe I'm just hyper-sensitive to that kind of thing. It made me laugh when I moved back to the US after school in Russia; family had gotten a new TV and within like seconds of being home and trying to watch a movie together, I'm immediately sitting there fiddling with the sittings, meanwhile no one else apparently even noticed the frame interpolation was on in the first place.

Anyway, sorry for the rant ;-)

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[1]: OK, this time it was from memory, so it might not quite be right. But maybe I've finally memorized the correct incantation?

[2]: good video on the topic - <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1nUCyC8hGA>

Another nice video on the topic: https://youtu.be/_KRb_qV9P4g

Not sure if you've read about Kagi on here, but one of its features is that you can weight/pin/hide certain sites in results. It works well for programming (although default search is well tuned for programming). There is also a feature called lenses which is a more fine tuned way of doing it. I think there's one for programming, one for shopping. I haven't personally used lenses though.

I saw a Chrome extension that removes Pinterest results called Unpinterested.

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