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I hear you. I wrote my reasoning on a comment above, but the gist is: It's an afternoon project, I fucked up the list because I didn't think much about it, and this project is probably better off being crowdsourced.

I think it's a proof of concept on how we can theoretically make searches better. Anyways, I'm pushing an update removing all the sites you mentioned. Do you have any other suggestions?

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That's fair tbh, I agree there is an unmet need for something like this, so no arguments there. It is only fair that the users should have at least an equal say in keeping companies off of their search results. The search engines are making the choices for you because you're the product, not the customer.

The implementation details take time to get right. And getting this far in an afternoon as a non-developer is pretty respectable.

If you want to have the most reach / impact with something like this though, it will take consistent, sustained effort over a long period of time, and it will be a thankless job, at least for awhile.

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