personal-blocklist
Killed by Google
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personal-blocklist
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The Steam subreddit has suddenly become all about actual steam and steam trains
Browser extensions such as Personal Blackliste also do this for you.
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personal-blocklist VS Lists - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 19 Jan 2023
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Fuck Googling
I've just blocked Quora from ever appearing in my google searches because of how un-helpful their website is despite being host to so many useful questions. I have no idea how one website can claim to fill the niche of Yahoo Answers yet fail to provide absolutely any of the value. Blocking it has vastly improved my Googling experience.
- frwiki sivusto?
- How to enhance your Google searches
- Caffè Italia * 23/08/22
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I hate codegrepper. Unrelated snippets are somehow the first Google result.
I use Personal Blocklist and added stuff like geeksforgeeks.org or cplusplus.com. It seems codegrepper earned a place on the list as of today
- The End of DuckDuckGo
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GMG Union is officially on strike. "We're asking people not to click on—or contribute content to Gizmodo, Jalopnik, Jezebel, Kotaku, Lifehacker, and TheRoot."
yes actually https://github.com/wildskyf/personal-blocklist
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Google Search Is Dying
I use something similar on Firefox: https://github.com/wildskyf/personal-blocklist. Blocked all these sites, get much better search results.
Killed by Google
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Apple Introduces M4 Chip
>Google operates in China albeit via their HK domain.
The Chinese government has access to the iCloud account of every Chinese Apple user.
>They also had project DragonFly if you remember.
Which never materialized.
>The lesser of two evils is that one company doesn’t try to actively profile me (in order for their ads business to be better) with every piece of data it can find and forces me to share all possible data with them.
Apple does targeted and non targeted advertising as well. Additionally, your carrier has likely sold all of the data they have on you. Apple was also sued for selling user data to ad networks. Odd for a Privacy First company to engage in things like that.
>Google is famously known to kill apps that are good and used by customers: https://killedbygoogle.com/
Google has been around for 26 years I believe. According to that link 60 apps were killed in that timeframe. According to your statement that Google kills an app a month that would leave you 252 apps short. Furthermore, the numbers would indicate that Google has killed 2.3 apps per year or .192 apps per month.
>As for the subpar apps: there is a massive difference between the network traffic when on the Home Screen between iOS and Android.
Not sure how that has anything to do with app quality, but if network traffic is your concern there's probably a lot more an Android user can do than an iOS user tp control or eliminate the traffic.
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Google Fit APIs get shut down in 2025, might break fitness devices
> This is proved by countless “killed by Google” incidents..
Oh, the Google's Graveyard: https://killedbygoogle.com/
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How I migrated from Firebase to Supabase
I was already starting to feel a little cornered in the whole Google ecosystem and a bit limited with stuff like backups, vendor lock in, etc. (and you always have the obvious hanging over your head) and ultimately, I think I just find the mental model of a SQL database more intuitive compared to a NoSQL database. So I thought to myself; "the longer I leave it, the harder it'll be to make the switch".
- With Vids, Google thinks it has the next big productivity tool for work
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Google Axion Processors, our new Arm-based CPUs
https://killedbygoogle.com/
Their reputation is deserved. Google domains was killed only last year!
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Google's Decision to Effectively Kill-off Small Sites
And this isn't even the first time I've been burned by Google's decisions. If you're familiar at all with the Google Graveyard, you'll know that Google has a long history of killing off products and services that people have come to rely on. This has happened to me a number of times, in both a personal and professional capacity, and frankly it's getting old.
- Google Scholar PDF Reader
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Calls grow for Sundar Pichai to step down from Google CEO position
Just because Google has a couple of decent services that you're willing to pay for doesn't detract from the fact that most of their products have a worse life expectancy than a victorian child in the 1800s. https://killedbygoogle.com
They ruined every single opportunity to be more than an advertising company since Orkut. With scrapped attempts, starts and lack of intention for most of the 2010s to even during the early half of the Pixel Era, they seemingly haven't learnt to stick to something and iterate on it well.
And the fact that over 50% of their revenues come from search and by extension, advertising.
The fact' that til this day, they still haven't evolved from the "throwing shit at the wall then at the fan" strat which explains how they have fumbled so much so quickly.
- Google's Gemini Headaches Spur $90B Selloff
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Our Company Is Doing So Well That You're All Fired
Yeah. The Google Graveyard really shows how far this can go.
https://killedbygoogle.com
The punchline is that in addition to hundreds of failed hobby projects, their stock is doing great. Monopoly power is a helluva drug.
What are some alternatives?
ublacklist - Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results
Materialize - Materialize, a CSS Framework based on Material Design
poe-wiki-search
babel-plugin-superjson-next - Automatically transform your Next.js Pages to use SuperJSON
uBlock-Origin-dev-filter - Filters to block and remove copycat-websites from DuckDuckGo, Google and other search engines. Specific to dev websites like StackOverflow or GitHub.
Ryujinx-Games-List - List of games & demos tested on Ryujinx
Redirector - Browser extension (Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Edge) to redirect urls based on regex patterns, like a client side mod_rewrite.
tModLoader - A mod to make and play Terraria mods. Supports Terraria 1.4 (and earlier) installations
uBlock - uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean.
BetterJoy - Allows the Nintendo Switch Pro Controller, Joycons and SNES controller to be used with CEMU, Citra, Dolphin, Yuzu and as generic XInput
duckduckgo-locales - Translation files for <a href="https://duckduckgo.com"> </a>
kotlin - The Kotlin Programming Language.