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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    Glad to see Quora as a common blocked site.

    It’s fascinating seeing a answer about physics being the highest rated by a guy who “loves cheeses” with a degree in “Deez Nuts”

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      But where else can I pretend to be the CEO of Ford, Chief of Staff for the Obama Administration, President of ACLU, and King of the European Union?

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          That’s awesome. Although from what i’ve heard and seen the answers aren’t all too great.

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            Yeah it’s like Reddit where anyone can answer a question. Sometimes it’s good sometimes it’s terrible. I have been using it more lately to supplement Lemmy when I need to look up a Reddit type of question. If you need facts not opinion then I just use Wikipedia or official sources for that.

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      Hey, I wouldn’t have passed first year calculus without the help of a physics forums user named DickHandy