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@feddit.nl
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    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
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      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