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BadWebsiteBlocklist: A blocklist I made that removes spam & misleading websites from search results (github.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by popcar2 to c/opensource

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Much like everyone else, I got fed up with search engines. So I decided to make a giant blocklist that cleans up garbage search results!

I browsed other blocklists and wasn't very satisfied from what exists now; the goal of this one is to be super organized and transparent, explaining why each site was blocked via issues. Contributions welcome!

Even though around 100 domains are blocked so far, I already noticed a big improvement in casual searches. You'd be surprised how some AI generated websites can dominate the #1 page on DuckDuckGo.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Thank you for making this! It already is improving using DDG! :) The number of times I've given up searching because of AI slop and bad links in the past month has been surprising, so this is really nice to have :)