I am currently self-hosting a meta search engine instance (searxng), which allows me combine searches from different engines (e.g. Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc), but also to filter out websites that I don’t want to show up.

The only website to make my blacklist so far is slant.co (useless SEO-riddled site that always comes up when I search for software comparisons). I also automatically redirect all reddit.com links to old.reddit.com.

I’m looking to expand this list. So, which websites do you blacklist? Either using software, or just mentally.

  • Fleppensteyn
    9·
    1 year ago

    I’d be happy if there is a way to block webshops. You can block e.g. Amazon but then there will be another shop in its place.

    I wasn’t so happy with Searx but I think I’ll have a look at SearXNG if blocking is an option

    • mim@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
      4·
      1 year ago

      In SearXNG you can redirect, or block domains (but you still need to define them). You need to enable the “Hostname replace” pluging in the setting.yaml

      enabled_plugins:
  - 'Hostname replace'  # see hostname_replace configuration below

      And then define the rules like this:

      hostname_replace:
#   My redirects
  '(.*\.)?reddit\.com$': 'old.reddit.com'
#   My filters
  'slant\.co': false
  'dailymail\.co\.uk': false