I found a tool that helps make the internet less crappy. A lot of my search results end up at Quora or JustAnswer, both sites I cannot stand. Quora for the false information that is rampant and JustAnswer because of the eight million times the bot will pop up and ask if I want to spend money for mediocre answers from some "expert" or another when I should be able to find what I'm looking for on my own, were the internet not so enshittified.

So far it's working. I've blocked both sites and not seen results from either pop up on searches.

If this is something that sounds useful to you, it is called uBlacklist and it's in the Chrome webstore.

#uBlacklist #Internet

We recently came across an amazing project called uBlockOrigin & uBlacklist Huge AI Blocklist.

As they describe it, it's:

A huge blocklist of manually curated sites (1000+) that contain AI generated content, for the purposes of cleaning image search engines (Google Search, DuckDuckGo, and Bing) with uBlock Origin or uBlacklist.

There's something really lovely at the top of the uBlock Origin filter list, just under the description, that brought us a small bit of very-much-needed joy, and we wanted to share it here with others 🫶

! HAPPY PRIDE MONTH

! Please support authentic artists! Whether it be commissions or donations, an amount of any size helps!

! I love you.
! You are valid.
! LGBTQ+ Rights!
! Keep your chin up--we will get through this together <33
! Have a happy day!

#NoAi #FuckAI #AIBlockList #uBlockOrigin #BlockList #uBlacklist #LGBTQ+ #LGBTQIA+ #queer #QueerRightsAreHumanRights

Edit: Thank you to fedizens who've added some additional lists of note 🫶

Stevo's GenAI Blocklist was mentioned here.

HPT-AI-Blocklists (HOSTS format) was mentioned here.

Edit 2: Adding another blocklist, after being made aware of it by @PurpleStephyr 🫶

uBlockOrigin & uBlacklist AI Blocklist

Found a #blocklist of manually curated sites (1000+) that contain AI generated content, for the purposes of cleaning image search engines (Google Search, DuckDuckGo, and Bing) with #ublockorigin #uBlacklist #AdGuardHome #pihole

https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist

UBlockOrigin and UBlacklist AI Blocklist

https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist

#HackerNews #UBlockOrigin #UBlacklist #AI #Blocklist #AdBlocker #PrivacyTech #OpenSource

 Backed-up and then reset uBlock Origin as there was a lot of cruft kicking about in the lists there.

I wanted to bring it level with where phoenix for Firefox is and then add whichever lists I'm missing.

After looking through the Super-SEO-Spam-Suppressor, I came across a no QAnon filterlist too.

Thoroughly recommend the Huge-AI-Blocklist too. These can work via uBlacklist too, which I think I will try and work out

Edit: Found out about Fanboy AI suggestions list. Which was in uBlock's lists but I hadn't enabled.

#Firefox #NoAI #uBlockOrigin #uBlacklist

I am adding websites to my ublacklist extension every other day.

Most of them are unhelpful troubleshooting sites or sites that smell a lot like AI slop...

If you want to add them as well, here's my current list:
https://wolke.numerfolt.de/s/JbtRiWLxknaRmiw

Do you use uBlacklist and have a an exported list for me?

#ublacklist

@OhOkayKay #uBlackList springs to mind for hiding domains in search results. I haven't used it for a while.

https://ublacklist.github.io/docs/getting-started

One of the cooler, quality-of-life extensions we've been using for a while in Firefox (desktop and mobile) is uBlacklist.

It may not seem like much, but being able to block websites from even showing in the results massively reduces the low-level damage from seeing certain websites show up when trying to get factual information, rather than propaganda and disinformation.

The types of websites we currently have blocked include:

• Anti-trans rights lobbyists.
• Right-wing newspapers, media, and forums.
• Anti-Palestine and/or pro-Israel organisations.
• Anti-migration organisations.
• Anti-neurodivergence (particularly anti-autism, anti-ADHD, and anti-AuDHD) organisations.
  • This especially includes any website recommending ABA or similar practices.
• AI-themed websites.
• Other misinformation and disinformation websites.

#uBlacklist #Firefox #extension