Ok, I finally see you what you meant by landfill, I mean Google is synonymous with search, for anyone. How many on HN think of Google as privacy invasive and hostile, yet use it as primary search engine? They literally redirected you to the internet's search page for general public. Your opinion is very subjective if you consider redirecting to Google is correct or not. The original argument of mine was, why should HN implement code explicitly for a target website, that is blocking it? Do they do the same for region locked content websites/pay walled sites, no? Then this is not correct.