iorate/ublacklist on Hacker News

If you like, you can block it from coming up with an extension: https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist

comment by Modified3019 · 2026-09-30 · in LinkedIn Larpmaxxing

This is just papering over it individually, but https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist is the only thing that makes searching bearable for me now.

comment by duskdozer · 2026-08-11 · in As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing

I use https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist for that. ~10k blocked domains and rules. There is just so so much spam

comment by duskdozer · 2026-05-23 · in Using Kagi Search with Low Vision

https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist Basically, - whenever a spam site is in my results, click to block - click through some and check out pages like "About" "Terms" "Disclaimer" "Privacy". often common boilerplate phrases abound.…

comment by duskdozer · 2026-03-05 · in I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project

…extension[0] is a godsend. It'll also apply the same blacklist to every search engine you use. [0]: https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist

comment by mzajc · 2026-02-22 · in An Unbothered Jimmy Wales Calls Grokipedia a 'Cartoon Imitation' of Wikipedia

…faces, and no more clickbait. Edit: Found this, which does claim support for Google News: https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist https://ublacklist.github.io/subscriptions I’m not sure if these are compatible with uBlock Origin, but some of…

comment by aspenmayer · 2025-08-25 · in Will at centre of legal battle over Shakespeare’s home unearthed after 150 years

You can also do this for free with uBlackList: https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist This has greatly enhanced my Google experience - easy to ban content farms, AI-generator websites from appearing in Google Images etc.

comment by eliasdaler · 2024-07-25 · in Google is the only search engine that works on Reddit now, thanks to AI deal

…new plugin (with new attach surface). Even better, this can be done as uBlock Origin list too. [1] https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist

comment by bluish29 · 2024-06-04 · in Show HN: I created a Chrome extension that block media giants in Google search

Not to discourage you from paying for Kagi, but I use https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist to remove Pintrest and some other domains from my search results and it works perfectly.

comment by gbuk2013 · 2024-05-22 · in How I Made Google's "Web" View My Default Search

You can check https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist

comment by Timshel · 2024-04-17 · in Reddit is taking over Google

…Firefox to filter out pinterest junk from search results. Also available for Chrome and Safari. https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist

comment by squarefoot · 2024-04-06 · in SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine

uBlacklist maybe? if you use Google for search https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist

comment by lgvld · 2024-03-31 · in Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain included

…but there's not much community activity on its subscription list [2] or awesome-ublacklist [3]. [1] https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist [2] https://iorate.github.io/ublacklist/subscriptions [3] https://github.com/rjaus/awesome-ublacklist

comment by dankebitte · 2024-02-20 · in Big media publishers are inundating the web with subpar product recommendations

…SEO junk like Pinterest, Tutorialspoint, Javatpoint, geeksforgeeks, etc at all in my searches. [1]: https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist

comment by delta_p_delta_x · 2024-01-16 · in Is Google Getting Worse? A Longitudinal Investigation of SEO Spam in Search [pdf]

> I want to be able to, with one click, remove GeeksForGeeks from all my search results — forever Try https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist , otherwise Kagi also has a similar feature.

comment by supriyo-biswas · 2023-12-23 · in Google is apparently struggling to contain an ongoing spam attack

https://iorate.github.io/ublacklist/docs https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist

comment by DavideNL · 2023-09-09 · in Kagi Small Web

…many search engines. A little bit of very easy effort goes a LONG way to cleaning up your results. https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist And here's two bonus things you need if you make use of youtube Sponsorblock. As it says on the tin,…

comment by Modified3019 · 2023-08-05 · in Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

Cut off a head, two more will take its place https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist lets you do this anyway, it does help somewhat

comment by 1317 · 2023-05-17 · in Texas professor fails entire class from graduating- claiming they used ChatGTP

…of search results on the client side. arosh’s list is a good place to start blocking crap. [1] https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist [2] https://github.com/arosh?tab=repositories

comment by supriyo-biswas · 2023-03-06 · in Google Search Is Dying (2022)

…It supports 10 search engines. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublacklist/pncfbmi... https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist

comment by shpx · 2023-01-29 · in Ask HN: Is StackOverflow Dying?

You can use uBlacklist[1] and subscribe to custom made blacklists[2] for specific content. 1. https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist 2. https://github.com/rjaus/awesome-ublacklist

comment by alwayslikethis · 2023-01-08 · in ChatGPT won’t replace search engines any time soon

Recommendation: https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist

comment by fiatjaf · 2022-11-26 · in Google, please do something with your ads and SEO-spam

I use uBlacklist to prevent medium.com articles from showing up in my Google results: https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist

comment by cristoperb · 2022-10-16 · in Poll: Is there a negative stigma toward articles written in Medium?

…rid of one of it's signature functionality, but if you're interested in an extension for browser: https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist

comment by xzjis · 2022-08-19 · in More content by people, for people in Search

https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist

comment by stevewatson301 · 2022-08-19 · in More content by people, for people in Search

…the business. https://search.brave.com/news?q=news https://duckduckgo.com/?q=news&iar=news&ia=news https://github.com/iorate/uBlacklist

comment by unraveller · 2022-06-29 · in Ask HN: Any viable alternatives to Google News?

https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist/issues/160

comment by dopa42365 · 2022-06-10 · in uBlacklist – Block specific sites from appearing in Google search results

…are essential. Also: you could try uBlacklist[0] to filter out specific sites from Google. [0] https://github.com/iorate/uBlacklist

comment by WallyFunk · 2022-05-27 · in Ask HN: Can we have a search engine that filters out paywalled results?

I use uBlacklist to remove these from my seach results: https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist https://blog.probabletrain.com/hide-w3schools-from-search-re... With some lists to block the SO and Github clones:…

comment by probabletrain · 2022-04-14 · in Three areas where Google Search lags behind competitors: code, cooking, travel

…results This extension prevents the sites you specify from appearing in Google search results. https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublacklist/pncfbmi...

comment by chewz · 2022-04-14 · in Three areas where Google Search lags behind competitors: code, cooking, travel

You can blacklist w3schools by using ublacklist: https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist There are also lists for blacklisting github and stackoverflow content clone sites.

comment by o_m · 2022-03-18 · in Mozilla and Open Web Docs Working Together on MDN

Luckily, the web is still open enough that you can do that yourself: https://github.com/iorate/uBlacklist

comment by franga2000 · 2022-02-04 · in Non-Consensual Personalization

Reminds me of https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist Hopefully you will add the startpage.com search engine (has same results as google) too :)

comment by DavideNL · 2022-01-24 · in Show HN: Let's Block It – Custom uBlock Origin Filters Made Easy

…version will be crippled more as Google feels the knife in its revenue artery, so FF is advised! https://github.com/iorate/uBlacklist

comment by imglorp · 2022-01-03 · in Show HN: No Trash Search

uBlacklist [0] solves this. The filters in [1] let me block all those clone sites. [0]: https://github.com/iorate/uBlacklist [1]: https://github.com/rjaus/awesome-ublacklist

comment by hidden-spyder · 2022-01-03 · in Google no longer producing high quality search results in significant categories

uBlacklist [0] solves this. The filters in [1] let me block all those clone sites. [0]: https://github.com/iorate/uBlacklist [1]: https://github.com/rjaus/awesome-ublacklist

comment by hidden-spyder · 2022-01-03 · in Google no longer producing high quality search results in significant categories

Woot! Super cool. Thank you. That like also refers to https://github.com/iorate/uBlacklist . Will check them out.

comment by speedcoder · 2021-12-29 · in DuckDuckGo's daily search queries surpassed 100M, a 47% increase

…“goggles” is better, but as yet I don’t believe there are any implementations of it. [2] [1] https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist [2] https://brave.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/goggles.pdf

comment by RileyJames · 2021-12-24 · in Ask HN: What would make a next-gen search engine?

…day there is an article about Quora, there is also a link for plugin for blocking search results( https://github.com/iorate/uBlacklist ). Immediately, I thought, oh that would be great for the spam Quora links. Although lately I’ve seen…

comment by magnawave · 2021-12-14 · in Leaving Quora after 10 years of answering questions

Great thanks, it even supports iOS. Will try it! https://github.com/iorate/uBlacklist

comment by DavideNL · 2021-12-02 · in Ask HN: What are these low quality “code snippet” sites?

…which allows you to hide sites by domain in the search results page for common search engines. 0 - https://github.com/iorate/uBlacklist

comment by charlesdaniels · 2021-12-01 · in Ask HN: What are these low quality “code snippet” sites?

…mirrors and wonky machine translations, but I don't know of any mature curation effort yet. [1] https://github.com/iorate/uBlacklist#supported-search-engine... [2] https://github.com/HoneyLuka/uBlacklist/tree/safari-port/saf... [3]…

comment by gxnxcxcx · 2021-11-13 · in Searx – Privacy-respecting metasearch engine

https://github.com/iorate/uBlacklist It's on Firefox as well as Chrome, and apple stuff. It's like a gift from god that allows me to block pinterest image results. Not had any issues with it what so ever.

comment by tapland · 2021-10-20 · in Brave Search replaces Google as default search engine in the Brave browser

…You can add subscription like those ad-blocking extension. Maybe this is what you want. *: https://github.com/iorate/uBlacklist

comment by pessoalzy · 2020-07-27 · in One company's plan to build a search engine Google can't beat

Check out uBlackList: https://github.com/iorate/uBlacklist Another HN'er referred to it recently and it has been a godsend.

comment by Macuyiko · 2020-06-23 · in Ego Graphs – the Google ‘vs’ trick

…It's also one of the best extensions I've seen in terms of code quality: https://github.com/iorate/uBlacklist

comment by namuorg · 2020-05-25 · in Show HN: A Firefox add-on to strip Google search results of 'blacklisted' URLs