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Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results
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Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results
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uBlacklist
English | Deutsch | 한국어 | 简体中文
Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results
Chrome: Chrome Web Store
Firefox: Firefox Add-ons
Edge: Edge Add-ons
Safari: App Store (macOS and iOS, thanks to Group-Leafy)
Description
This extension prevents the sites you specify from appearing in Google search results.
You can add rules on search result pages, or on sites to be blocked by clicking the toolbar icon. Rules can be specified either by match patterns (e.g. *://*.example.com/*) or by expressions including regular expressions, variables and string matchers (e.g. /example\.(net|org)/, path*="example"i, $category = "images" & title ^= "Example"…).
You can synchronize rulesets across devices via cloud storage (Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, WebDAV) or browser sync.
You can also subscribe to public rulesets. Some public rulesets are listed on the website:
https://ublacklist.github.io/rulesets
Browser support policy
uBlacklist supports the following browser versions:
Chrome: Latest stable version only
Firefox: Latest stable version and latest ESR only
Edge: Latest stable version only
Safari: Latest stable version only (macOS and iOS)
Support for browsers outside the list above depends on community contributions. Please open a Discussion with a concrete implementation proposal — reports without one are unlikely to be addressed.
Supported search engines
This extension is available in the below search engines.
Web
Images
Videos
News
Google
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Bing
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Brave
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DuckDuckGo
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Ecosia
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Kagi
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SearXNG
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Startpage
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Yahoo! JAPAN
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Yandex
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No additional builtin search engine support is planned. You can use SERPINFO to add support for any search engine yourself.
Related repositories
ublacklist/builtin — Builtin SERPINFO files. The extension periodically downloads the latest SERPINFO from here.
ublacklist/packages — npm packages (@ublacklist/match-pattern, @ublacklist/ruleset, @ublacklist/serpinfo) and the ruleset/SERPINFO format specifications
ublacklist/store-assets — Store listing descriptions and screenshots
ublacklist/ublacklist.github.io — Website and documentation (https://ublacklist.github.io)
For subscription providers
To publish a ruleset as a subscription, place a ruleset file encoded in UTF-8 on a suitable HTTP(S) server, and publish the URL. Here is an example hosted on GitHub:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/iorate/ublacklist-example-subscription/master/uBlacklist.txt
You can prepend YAML frontmatter to your ruleset. It is recommended that you set the name variable.
---
name: Your ruleset name
---
*://*.example.com/*
Authoring rulesets and SERPINFO with AI agents
Agent skills for writing rulesets and SERPINFO are published in ublacklist/packages. You can install them into your AI coding agent with the GitHub CLI:
gh skill install ublacklist/packages
Contributing
See our Contributing Guide for detailed development setup and guidelines.
Author
iorate (X)
License
uBlacklist is licensed under MIT License.
Read the full README on GitHubWhat Hacker News says
51 sourcesThis is just papering over it individually, but https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist is the only thing that makes searching bearable for me now.
In As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearingI use https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist for that. ~10k blocked domains and rules. There is just so so much spam
In Using Kagi Search with Low Visionhttps://github.com/iorate/ublacklist
Basically,
- whenever a spam site is in my results, click to block
- click through some and check out pages like "About" "Terms" "Disclaimer" "Privacy". often common boilerplate phrases abound. affiliate marketing spam, and similar, for example
- exact string search those phrases
- (get often many pages of results)
- using a userscript, block all domains in each result page
my results have gotten so much better for common types of queries. even then, new sites pop up almost daily it seems. add to the list.
In I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source projectFor users of other search engines, the uBlacklist extension[0] is a godsend. It'll also apply the same blacklist to every search engine you use.
[0]: https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist
In An Unbothered Jimmy Wales Calls Grokipedia a 'Cartoon Imitation' of WikipediaI don’t know of one for Google News, but there is DeArrow for YouTube.
https://dearrow.ajay.app/
> DeArrow is an open source browser extension for crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails on YouTube. The goal is to make titles accurate and reduce sensationalism. No more arrows, ridiculous faces, and no more clickbait.
Edit:
Found this, which does claim support for Google News:
https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist
https://ublacklist.github.io/subscriptions
I’m not sure if these are compatible with uBlock Origin, but some of them seem to be.
The demo gif is pretty clear on what it does and how it works, but it only makes it easier to block domains from the looks of it. It doesn’t actually rewrite titles which was your request.
In Will at centre of legal battle over Shakespeare’s home unearthed after 150 yearsYou can also do this for free with uBlackList: https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist
This has greatly enhanced my Google experience - easy to ban content farms, AI-generator websites from appearing in Google Images etc.
In Google is the only search engine that works on Reddit now, thanks to AI dealI think this is better suited as a list of this great extension ublacklist [1]
You can turn it off or on to achieve everything, a new plugin (with new attach surface). Even better, this can be done as uBlock Origin list too.
[1] https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist
In Show HN: I created a Chrome extension that block media giants in Google searchNot to discourage you from paying for Kagi, but I use https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist to remove Pintrest and some other domains from my search results and it works perfectly.
In How I Made Google's "Web" View My Default SearchYou can check https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist
In Reddit is taking over GoogleuBlacklist does just that with Google and some other search engines.
I use it with Firefox to filter out pinterest junk from search results. Also available for Chrome and Safari.
https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist
In SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engineuBlacklist maybe? if you use Google for search
https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist
In Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain includedThere's uBlacklist [1], but there's not much community activity on its subscription list [2] or awesome-ublacklist [3].
[1] https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist
[2] https://iorate.github.io/ublacklist/subscriptions
[3] https://github.com/rjaus/awesome-ublacklist
In Big media publishers are inundating the web with subpar product recommendationsConsider using ublacklist[1]. I don't see SEO junk like Pinterest, Tutorialspoint, Javatpoint, geeksforgeeks, etc at all in my searches.
[1]: https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist
In Is Google Getting Worse? A Longitudinal Investigation of SEO Spam in Search [pdf]uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results
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