I am currently self-hosting a meta search engine instance (searxng), which allows me combine searches from different engines (e.g. Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc), but also to filter out websites that I don’t want to show up.

The only website to make my blacklist so far is slant.co (useless SEO-riddled site that always comes up when I search for software comparisons). I also automatically redirect all reddit.com links to old.reddit.com.

I’m looking to expand this list. So, which websites do you blacklist? Either using software, or just mentally.

  • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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    Geeksforgeeks.org

    The kicker was the aggressive popups to login and share your location.

    At least w3schools made a effort to improve.

    I typically Blocklist it. But when I’m coaching juniors and see them search, I remember how annoyed I am with that site.

    • LufyCZ@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      geeksforgeeks

      I’ve just killed the popup with uBlock and it’s pretty usable, was driving me mad before though, fuck that shit

    • Joojele@discuss.tchncs.de
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      tutorialspoint is similarly bad, they are mostly SEOed sites. Sometimes also giving wrong or misleading information.