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by andyljones 1922 days ago
This made me wonder 'Hey, could I just block Quora and Medium from my Google results altogether?'

Yep! There's an extension. No more towardsdatascience to trawl through, hooray!

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublacklist/pncfbmi...

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Pintrest images from search too. There's an extension for that as well, but in the interest of having fewer extensions you can just search with `-site:pinterest.*`
It would probably be nice to have a “Filter all sites with paywalls” checkbox that might get some sites reconsidering their walls.
I hope Google finally takes a stand against paywalls and popups themselves by deranking them. They already have a policy that a site is not allowed to hide info from users that they do show search engine crawlers.