I keep trying to find things like “making waffles from sour dough discard” and all the sites are the same: long meandering paragraphs full of links to other things on the site with dubious instructions.
Considering at this point I can pretty much identify the type of site by looking at it; are there good extensions or search engines which might remove them from search results?
Try uBlacklist, with these blocklists:
# AI Spam https://raw.githubusercontent.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist/main/list_uBlacklist.txt # Copycat Sites https://raw.githubusercontent.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter/main/dist/other_format/uBlacklist/global.txt # SEO Spam & Junk https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NotaInutilis/Super-SEO-Spam-Suppressor/main/ublacklist.txtThanks for this! Been looking for something like it. I guess it just blocks the sites though, and doesn’t block them appearing in search results?
So uBlacklist actually removes sites specified in your subscribed rulesets from your search results.
I found it helped out a lot on programming or tech support searches, as there’s so many content mirrors and SEO spam sites for that domain.
I also found that using search shortcuts has helped me reduce the need for the middle-man in a surprising amount of my searches. (e.g., “@w” for Wikipedia, “@g” for the Gentoo Wiki, “@git” for GitHub, “@p” for ProtonD, “@y” for YouTube, “@s” for Stack Overflow, et cetera)
Is there one for DuckDuckGo?
Yes it supports DDG and every major search engine (see: GitHub). You might have to manually give it permission first (like for specific SearXng instances), after which it’ll work.
If you meant can you add DDG as a search shortcut, also yes.
Oh, cool. Thank you!