w3fools VS ublacklist

From what I understand a lot of it is residual. W3schools has always been directed at beginners, but it also used to be wrong rather frequently.

This site [0] used to be the hub for the hate and now has a message saying that w3schools has gotten better. If you're curious, they still have a link to the web archive that has all the mistakes documented.

[0] https://www.w3fools.com/

https://www.w3fools.com/:

> When W3Fools was launched in 2011, the state of documentation for developers was poor. This site documented many content errors and issues with the W3Schools website. The Mozilla Developer Network was around but it did not have much support at the time.

> Today, W3Schools has largely resolved these issues and addressed the majority of the undersigned developers' concerns. For many beginners, W3Schools has structured tutorials and playgrounds that offer a decent learning experience. Do keep in mind: a more complete education will certainly include MDN and other reputable resources.

It dates back to https://www.w3fools.com/ and specifically https://web.archive.org/web/20110412103745/http://w3fools.com/

w3fools.com has all the details.

As an aside, when I was learning it was discouraged to use w3schools (https://www.w3fools.com/) but it seems some of those concerns aren't true anymore, but still, I'd highly recommend going to MDN docs before anything else: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Viewport_meta_tag

It used to be not as accurate. There's even a site devoted to it.

w3schools is very very bad. https://www.w3fools.com/

I wish I shared your optimism. I've contacted them multiple times regarding bad material, and they've never fixed any issues. I was told during one conversation that they don't remove material; even if it's outright wrong. I won't be happy until there's an equivalent to https://www.w3fools.com/ for G4G.

uBlacklist maybe? if you use Google for search

https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist

> I want to be able to, with one click, remove GeeksForGeeks from all my search results — forever

Try https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist, otherwise Kagi also has a similar feature.

ublacklist works with many search engines. A little bit of very easy effort goes a LONG way to cleaning up your results.

https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist

And here's two bonus things you need if you make use of youtube

Sponsorblock. As it says on the tin, automatically skips sponsor sections.

https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock

Dearrow. An open source and crowdsourced tool replace youtubes stupid fucking clickbait title cards, and replaces many titles with better ones. You can contribute!

https://github.com/ajayyy/DeArrow

Once again, preaching the uBlacklist extension to block *://answers.microsoft.com/* from search results.

or you could just https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist

You can use an extension to add that. uBlackList is a Chrome and Firefox extension that lets you block sites from appearing in search results for 10 different search engines (including Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing, and Brave search).