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I have said this before, will say it again. This can be fully achieved with uBlock and custom filters like the one maintained by quenhus[1] that can block websites across multiple search engines. You don't need to increase the vulnerability surface by installing yet another extension on your browser.

[1] https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter

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Almost any blocking extension can be achieved with uBlock, that doesn't make them any less useful:

- a dedicated extension offers a better experience when blocking (uBlacklist for it's case certainly does) - having everything in uBlock will disable all blocking, even if you just need some disabled (in this case, you might just want to see all results, but keep blocking tracking + ads)

It might still be a good trade-off to just use uBlock for the vuln. surface, but there are good reasons to install another extension.

You could just uncheck the list from quenhus when you want to get all search results. I don't think thats much harder than disabling an extension.

I'm referring to built-in disable buttons from the appropriate extensions

The repo you’re linking to seems to itself state that uBlacklist is “more efficient than uBO in this case”

This seems to be targeted against copycat spam of known sites. I just want to remove some sites from my results because I hate them.

You can generate a filter for that here:

https://letsblock.it/filters/search-results

But you can easily block websites from the results page.

Is it domains or just pages?

Domains, with a wildcard option for the subdomains.

How do you use ublock to block domains on the fly as you search?

That page itself says:

uBlacklist (more efficient than uBO in this case)

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