Ask HN: How would you remove Reddit.com from all search results?

[golimway]

Since Reddit blocked VPNs, every reddit.com result has become a waste of space and attention on results pages.

Since I don't plan on changing my security posture for the sake of whatever privacy violation they are planning, how would you recommend removing all Reddit.com domain results from search engines like google, duckduckgo, startpage, and presearch?

[davidcox143]

Kagi [1] is great for this and is IMO the best search engine in general these days.

[1] https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/website-info-personalize...

[poetril]

+1 for Kagi. Not only are the results consistently better, but the ability to tailor the search results to my needs are incredible. Honestly couldn’t imagine going back to Google after using it

[golimway]

Doesn't kagi require paying or is there a free version?

[stop50]

On firefox i use a addon called ublacklist. i use it mainly to remove stackoverflow clones from appearing in search results.

[golimway]

Nice option! Looks like uBlacklist has a firefox and chrome extension.

Supported Search Engines:

Google Bing Brave DuckDuckGo Ecosia Qwant SearX Startpage Yahoo! JAPAN Yandex

[justaj]

I'm just wondering how Reddit managed to do that. Do VPN companies have to register their endpoints in some kind of a VPN database so that Reddit can flag them as IP addresses coming from VPN companies? How otherwise would Reddit know that a particular IP address belongs to a VPN company?

[panic_canine]

You could infer if there were a lot of activity or a lot of disparate activity from a single IP address that it belonged to a VPN.

[justaj]

Doesn't this go out of the windows with IPv6?

[sarcasmatwork]

Block the domain?

https://www.lkhrs.com/blog/2022/04/block-domains-from-search...

[golimway]

Yes blocking the domain and subdomains would be ideal. I'm surprised to see uBlock has this ability, thanks for the info.

[golimway]

Article snippet:

Let’s Block It! is a handy site to generate content filters for uBlock Origin, and you can create an account and share your list, which can be added just like any other uBlock Origin list.

You’ll want to use their tool to make your own search results filter, which provides the option to easily add in some exhaustive filters from the uBlock-Origin-dev-filter project.

The filters support result filtering on Bing, DuckDuckGo, Google, Kagi, Searx, and Startpage.

[nothercastle]

You might as well turn off Google then because that’s the only human content it can still reliably search

[golimway]

VPN usage growth is only accelerating, so any tips would be helpful to a large percentage of internet users.

[nicbou]

uBlacklist is perfect for this. It's a fantastic extension. It also removes a lot of other spam results.

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