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The most satisfying experience for me at the moment is the suggestions I get on a new tab in chrome on Android.

Not because the suggestions are amazingly good - sometimes they're ok - but because when they lead to some crap-infested site I can click to not see that site any more. That ability to cull keeps the suggestions workable for me.

I genuinely think the Google would benefit hugely by making this a possibility with their search engine. With the coming flood of chatgpt-generated shit sites, they have so much to gain by enabling human curation, even if page impressions take a hit.

Ffs Google, provide your users with a way to blacklist the more abominable parts of the internet and you'll engender serious customer loyalty and stickiness.

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> That ability to cull keeps the suggestions workable for me.

Don't you have better use for your time? Normalizing the disaster that has become the internet (and absolving the key actors in that development) is robbing us all from experiencing a more sane online life.

Once google makes it possible, the next step will be a browser extension to synchronise with a crowdsourced list.

These lists will of course be at risk of the same pressures as ad blockers, with incentives for list maintainers to accept bribes to remove entries.

But over time, the quality of the lists will improve and so too will the quality of the UX for users of the aforementioned extensions. That is, assuming the goose isn't cooked already.

This mostly already happened more than a decade ago. Google killed it. Search for 'Google personal blocklist':

https://searchengineland.com/googles-personal-blocklist-dele...

They used to have that feature, but then you could block the spammiest sites that make them money, can’t have that. Luckily, I neither use Chrome nor Google.

Here's to churn among the Big Tech oligopoly. Cheers!

Kagi search lets you block, lower, raise, and pin results by domain.

I use Edge browser on Android because it allows me to block ads. I also use NewPipe instead of the normal YouTube app and I can enjoy essentially an adless experience on Android.

Firefox + uBlock Origin + Video Background Play Fix.

This has been the best way to watch YouTube on Android. The video keeps playing in the background too and no ads of course.

If the suggestions are only ok, why not just disable them and stop wasting your time curating them?

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