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rightbyte on Dec 14, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing i...

My feeling is that by blacklisting like 100 sites you get 99% of the SEO spam.

In practice it should be a winning battle, since it takes time and money to spam site up in ranking and low effort to blacklist it.

I will try this out.

visarga on Dec 14, 2021 [–]

So you're saying Google could clean up the index by simply banning 100 sites?

InvertedRhodium on Dec 14, 2021 | | [–]

I don't think it works at the provider level - one person's junk is another person's treasure, and there's always going to be content that could swing one way or the other.

rightbyte on Dec 14, 2021 | | [–]

For my typical querries atleast. I haven't tried yet.

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