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Is there a way to block certain websites from showing up in search results? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago by revanth_hi_o7@lemmy.ml to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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Hi all, sorry if this is a noob question but I use Firefox on Android and I want to know if there is a way to block certain websites from showing up in search results when searching for something.

For example, if I search for something, I don't want the search engine to show a few reddit threads or some random news site with clickbait articles or in general which don't make any sense? I would like to completely block such sites from showing up in my search results and in a way tidy up my search.

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[–] Jramskov 12 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Perhaps Kagi would work for you? https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/website-info-personalized-results.html

[–] revanth_hi_o7@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thank you, I'll check it out.

[–] sylverstream@lemmy.nz 7 points 2 years ago

Second vote for Kagi. I've read so many good stories about it here, so gave it a try. First time didn't really like it, but gave it a second try, and now am paying user. Not for everyone, the Mrs doesn't like it.

[–] TurtleTourParty@midwest.social 2 points 2 years ago

Pinterest is the number one filtered site on Kagi!

[–] loki@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You can generally add "-" before a domainname for search engines to prevent content from that domain showing up.

So for reddit, you'd search "weather -reddit.com". It should work. This is short and generally works but If it still shows up "weather -site:reddit.com".

you can also add multiple domains like "-reddit.com -stackoverflowclone.com -seojacked.com"

You can also do this by default using custom search engine with a search string that already contains the domains you don't want.

For ddg:

https://start.duckduckgo.com/?q=%s+-reddit.com

[–] revanth_hi_o7@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago

Thank you for your answer, I am aware about adding "-" before the domain name, I am sorry should have mentioned it in my post 😔. But it does not seem feasible to do that everytime for multiple sites so I'm more interested in setting up a default list of websites I can block.

[–] Jode@midwest.social 10 points 2 years ago

Yes please. Pinterest should be entirely filtered out of all search.

[–] bbigras@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] revanth_hi_o7@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Thank you very much, this seems to do the job.

[–] bbigras@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

You are very welcome. Note that they also have some public block lists that you can subscribe too.

[–] zeluko@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

uBlacklist

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

This is very easy to do if you use kagi. It works well on Firefox for android.