Hi all, sorry if this is a noob question but I use Firefox on Android and I want to know if there is a way to block certain websites from showing up in search results when searching for something.

For example, if I search for something, I don't want the search engine to show a few reddit threads or some random news site with clickbait articles or in general which don't make any sense? I would like to completely block such sites from showing up in my search results and in a way tidy up my search.

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[–] 12 points 2 years ago (4 children)
  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You can generally add "-" before a domainname for search engines to prevent content from that domain showing up.

    So for reddit, you'd search "weather -reddit.com". It should work. This is short and generally works but If it still shows up "weather -site:reddit.com".

    you can also add multiple domains like "-reddit.com -stackoverflowclone.com -seojacked.com"

    You can also do this by default using custom search engine with a search string that already contains the domains you don't want.

    For ddg:

    https://start.duckduckgo.com/?q=%s+-reddit.com

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 2 years ago

    Thank you for your answer, I am aware about adding "-" before the domain name, I am sorry should have mentioned it in my post 😔. But it does not seem feasible to do that everytime for multiple sites so I'm more interested in setting up a default list of websites I can block.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    Yes please. Pinterest should be entirely filtered out of all search.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)
  • [–] [S] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Thank you very much, this seems to do the job.

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    [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The search sytanx is like this if you want to have results without facebook face -facebook https://search.brave.com/search?q=face%20-facebook Maybe you can add %20-facebook to the search engine as default.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    This is very easy to do if you use kagi. It works well on Firefox for android.

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