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stroobants-dev/ublock-origin-shitty-copies-filter

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Filter for DuckDuckGo and Google to remove those spam-websites that just blatantly copy and paste content from well known websites.

5 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 0 stories, 5 comments · first 2021-12-14 · latest 2022-01-24

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  1. Another one that got commented in other similar topics is this one, albeit not updated since last month: https://github.com/stroobants-dev/ublock-origin-shitty-copie... It was the same as quenhus, but with Pinterest added.
  2. I'm not sure about the specifics on how uBlacklist works but these[0] uBlock origin filters seem to be very basic and invariant to small changes. Google could certainly could make them harder to remove but given that they don't put up much…
  3. This was discussed around a month ago, leading me to this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29546433#29549855 and the consequent uBlock Origin list that is what I'm using as the so far better solution for this problem:…
  4. I also use uBlock, but with this list: https://github.com/stroobants-dev/ublock-origin-shitty-copie...
  5. Created a repository for it which also includes the Pinterest list of uBlacklist ( https://github.com/stroobants-dev/ublock-origin-shitty-copie... ). Easier to keep it up to date than a gist.