Yacy VS uBlock-Origin-dev-filter

It turns out you can make it all the way to become president of Harvard [1] while ignoring this rule so it is questionable whether it is as set in stone as you make it out to be, at least in certain disciplines.

In a way these models are a perfect mirror of the current academic climate. They plagiarise without remorse, they follow the latest identity-politics diktat to a point and make up 'facts' when needed to reach a desired narrative. Google Gemini is the latest example [2] of where this leads.

Given that it is plausible that models like these will soon be used in educational settings this is a recipe for disaster. The same goes for the trend to replace search engine results with 'interpreted' results in which LLMs take up the same role as Winston in 1984: Winston works in the Ministry of Truth where he alters historical records to fit the needs of the Party.

It is time for a decentralised distributed search engine which limits itself to pure search, something like YaCy [3]. Something to replace Winstonian search engines like Google and Bing (et al.).

[1] https://www.campusreform.org/article/claudine-gay-is-a-dei-h...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39465255

[3] https://yacy.net/

> Now I just need some kind of open source search engine to run on it ...

Here you go: https://yacy.net

I remember https://yacy.net/ but the big problem of this project was java and had not implementations in others languages. I mean it as imagine torrent was only in perl.

Admarus is similar as Yacy but aims to be distributed where Yacy is federated. Both are made for the web

You should check out https://yacy.net: a global, P2P web search engine, where each peer can build and share its own index, etc.

I also have an instance of Yacy installed, which I use to index the entire system, giving me my own private, internal search engine.

I'm not OP, but here is my own uBlock filter with hundreds of GitHub/StackOverflow copycats: https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter

This is really the core of my disappointment in Google: their poor handling of malicious SEO. Having humans go over shared site blocklists that people use to improve results, hand verify each entry, and remove those sites from Google results would go a long, long way.

I'm talking about lists like these: https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter/blob/mai...

It wouldn't take a small team more than a few weeks to get through these lists -- most of the work has already been done.

I'm not OP, but for those of you who saw this comment and were hoping for a link, the one that I use is https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter

I reported the issue at https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter/issues/348.

There is a community-maintained list of these stackoverflow / github / npm / wikipedia clones, and filters to hide them from search results: https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter

These lists are supported as presets in https://letsblock.it/filters/search-results

I've been using this uBO filter since someone recommended on a different thread and it's been great at removing those annoying sites from search results: https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter

The filter has presets at the bottom of the settings form, sourced from data from the https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter project.