Block unwanted sites from your Google, DuckDuckGo, Startpage, Bing and Yahoo search results

barbudo2005

I recommend the JS Google Hit Hider by Domain :

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/1682-google-hit-hider-by-domain-search-filter-block-sites

You have to install the extension Tampermonkey:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tampermonkey/dhdgffkkebhmkfjojejmpbldmpobfkfo

and next install the JS.

In the search page appear a small button:

If you click the button to right of every link appears a new button "Block":

If you click the button give you two options:

Permaban : Never appear again.

Block site : Display a one line notice about that suppressed hit like this:

This is page of the creator for more help:

https://www.jeffersonscher.com/gm/google-hit-hider/

This way you will have a cleaner search hiding results that you do not care to see.

Streptococcus

I do not think that you can stop search engines from fetching junk. As soon as a search engine starts ignoring some of the search terms, junk follows.

barbudo2005

The search engine not stop from fetching or ingnoring anything. The JS not permit that the links display in the search results. So you don't see them.

Streptococcus

@barbudo2005
Of course links display in the search results. I just did a search and saw not only a title, but a link:
Synapsid - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synapsid

Pathduck

It's a good idea, and could be useful for a lot of people. For one thing to get rid of all the SEO scumbag spammers that populate the results, for instance when searching for malware removal.Problem is, these lowlifes tend to change domains a lot...

For me personally I think it would be too much manual labour to constantly add sites I wanted to hide whenever I did a search. But maybe for users who do a lot of very similar searches this would be worth it to get rid of the useless ads and spam.

barbudo2005

@Pathduck You are right. The target is the people who do a lot of very similar searches.

Streptococcus

@Pathduck
I do not see ads in the search results page. uBlock Origin gets rid of them.

Pathduck

@Streptococcus I use uBlock too, and I don't see ads on Google or elsewhere. But as an example: I often find myself searching for the name of pop-up spam notifications that unwary users see when they allow notifications or similar.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q="promodayz.com"&kae=t&t=vivaldi&ia=web

How many of the sites on top of the results do you think actually give genuine and good advice on removing these things? Most of them are misleading, completely useless, copy-pasting the exact same "advice" from other sites and just replacing the name of the "malware".

Their primary purpose is to get the users to click on affiliate links to earn money. Some of them might lead to good software, other to crap "virus removers" that are actually malware itself. So they're not ads, but SEO spammer links leading to misleading or even potentially dangerous sites, luring unwary users to install some "virus remover" software instead of actually helping them solve the problem.

So if I had the ability to remove some of the main useless sites from the results and show only the ones I know are good it would help. That's why such an extension could be useful.

barbudo2005

@Pathduck said:

"For me personally I think it would be too much manual labour to constantly add sites I wanted to hide whenever I did a search."

The good thing is that you can block domains, so you block one time and not see all the links related.

barbudo2005

Also apply to Ecosia, Yandex, Qwant and Baidu.

Dr.Flay

I like this idea a lot.
Added to my collection, thanks.

@Streptococcus I don't think you understand what this script does, or more importantly allows you to do.
It is not an advert or spam blocker.

Lets imagine I am searching for IT and tech stories, but prefer that the search engine does not show me results from useless sites like Forbes.
My first search will show results including Forbes if they cover a story, so I would click on the block button to make any results from forbes invisible to me.
Perhaps I object to seeing results from certain "legitimate" news/clickbait sites. Easily fixed.

Try blocking wikipedia and see what your searches look like after that.
It won't stop you actually visiting the sites if you want to like a traditional blocker does.

Streptococcus

@Pathduck
I just looked up promodayz.com with DuckDuckGo. Most of the results I got were instructions on how to remove it, like this one:
How to remove Promodayz.com pop-ups (Virus removal guide)
https://www.myantispyware.com/2020/04/16/how-to-remove-promodayz-com-pop-ups-virus-removal-guide/