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Making a Blocklist to Remove Spam from Search Engines (popcar.bearblog.dev)
submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Fantastic! Thank you for sharing this.

I have it installed, I'm curious how effective it will be.

Lately, I've been reporting AI generated cruft as "spam" to duckduckgo. In fact, it's not really spam - as there are some nuggets of useful information, but so sparse, I'd rather of skipped the article/website entirely. I hope these kind of Blocklists will evolve to include this kind of quasi-spam.

[โ€“] Valmond 2 points 5 days ago

I bet we could make an effective blocklist just by discarding all websites with more than 200 words on them.