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Bogey

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I've installed Diversion and Skynet with amtm (thank you @thelonelycoder) and although the rubbish on pages is almost all gone, there's still some rubbish (imo) in Google's search results: Pinterest.

I know I can exclude it by adding:
Code:
-site:pinterest.com
to Google's query. But sometimes I'm using my mobile phone and it would be FANTASTIC if -site: pinterest.com could be added automatically to the query.

Can I achieve that with Diversion either/or Skynet? Or perhaps adding a rule to the firewall manually?
 
Blacklist it through Diversion. Open Diversion, edit lists (el), edit Blacklist (2), add domain (1).

I just tried it, not previously having added anything into the blacklist, and I added:
pinterest.com
and the same with www. in front
and also the .co.uk variations

and made sure I continued to process the new blocked domains.

After clearing the browser caches it all works as designed: blocked!
 
I think @Bogey is asking for Pinterest to be excluded from Google's search results, not that the site should be blocked. If so then I don't think that's possible. You're asking for a way to dynamically change the contents of a browser's HTTPS request. For that you'd need to use a proxy server.
 
I've installed Diversion and Skynet with amtm (thank you @thelonelycoder) and although the rubbish on pages is almost all gone, there's still some rubbish (imo) in Google's search results: Pinterest.

I know I can exclude it by adding:
Code:
-site:pinterest.com
to Google's query. But sometimes I'm using my mobile phone and it would be FANTASTIC if -site: pinterest.com could be added automatically to the query.

Can I achieve that with Diversion either/or Skynet? Or perhaps adding a rule to the firewall manually?
No, Skynet and Diversion act on the router level and don't see the IP packets sent by devices or applications.
 
I think @Bogey is asking for Pinterest to be excluded from Google's search results, not that the site should be blocked. If so then I don't think that's possible. You're asking for a way to dynamically change the contents of a browser's HTTPS request. For that you'd need to use a proxy server.
That's correct.
No, Skynet and Diversion act on the router level and don't see the IP packets sent by devices or applications.
I understand.
So aside of Skynet of Diversion, would there be a way to change the query from
https://www.google.com/search?q=whatever
to
https://www.google.com/search?q=whatever+-site:pinterest.com
A proxy as Colin mentioned?
 
I've installed Diversion and Skynet with amtm (thank you @thelonelycoder) and although the rubbish on pages is almost all gone, there's still some rubbish (imo) in Google's search results: Pinterest.

I know I can exclude it by adding:
Code:
-site:pinterest.com
to Google's query. But sometimes I'm using my mobile phone and it would be FANTASTIC if -site: pinterest.com could be added automatically to the query.

Can I achieve that with Diversion either/or Skynet? Or perhaps adding a rule to the firewall manually?

Maybe try using ‘Duck Duck Go’ as a search engine?
 
Nope, still pinterest results (particularly with searching for images).

I think so too.

Yes that's it! I found a script for Tamper Monkey on Firefox.

Glad you got it sorted. Could you include a link for the script: there’s probably many who, like me, have never heard of Tamper Monkey, and are interested to learn more.
 
Glad you got it sorted. Could you include a link for the script: there’s probably many who, like me, have never heard of Tamper Monkey, and are interested to learn more.
Sure, here it is:
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/1682-google-hit-hider-by-domain-search-filter-block-sites

I found something else that suits me even better, it's a filter for Ublock Origin / Adguard.
Advantage over the Tampermonkey solution is that it works for Safari and other browsers that don't have Tampermonkey.
Code:
google.com###search .g:has(cite:has-text(/https?:\/\/.*\.pinterest\.com/))
It excludes from Google's main search, however, not from Google's image search.
 
What happens if you simply append -pinterest to the search term?

https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?hl=en

Sure, that’d work every time and Bogey says that, but he doesn’t want to have to exclude it by adding:
Code:
-site:pinterest.com
into every search, especially those on his phone. He wants to do it automatically.

The thing I find strange is I’d never heard of pinterest until I saw this topic. In all the thousands of Google searches I’ve made over the years, pinterest has never once cropped up. So I wonder why one person is plagued by it in every Google search and another person’s never seen a single instance of it?
 
The thing I find strange is I’d never heard of pinterest until I saw this topic. In all the thousands of Google searches I’ve made over the years, pinterest has never once cropped up. So I wonder why one person is plagued by it in every Google search and another person’s never seen a single instance of it?
:)
I'm wondering the same thing!

Ok, but first: I'm not plagued by it in every Google search.
But nevertheless still often. Perhaps it's because Google thinks I might be interested in Pinterest crap? My wife, a graphic designer, used to use Pinterest a lot (not anymore because of the stupid useless results in Google and she found a different tool). Pinterest was/is a hot thing in graphic designer land; they use it to create mood boards.
I think it's useless crap, because it doesn't present the real source of the searched information/images, but a copy or "pin" (or whatever).
So... perhaps Google decides to present me with that crap because of our shared IP address. I don't know...

I think you're a lucky man, not ever been plagued by Pinterest. But for your amusement, do a search on excluding pinterest from google search results and you'll find a ton of people who want to achieve the same peace and quiet from this 'tormentor'.
:D

Edit: oh if you've never been plagued, don't sign up to check it out, maybe you'll get flooded by it too. ;)
 
:)
I'm wondering the same thing!

Ok, but first: I'm not plagued by it in every Google search.
But nevertheless still often. Perhaps it's because Google thinks I might be interested in Pinterest crap? My wife, a graphic designer, used to use Pinterest a lot (not anymore because of the stupid useless results in Google and she found a different tool). Pinterest was/is a hot thing in graphic designer land; they use it to create mood boards.
I think it's useless crap, because it doesn't present the real source of the searched information/images, but a copy or "pin" (or whatever).
So... perhaps Google decides to present me with that crap because of our shared IP address. I don't know...

I think you're a lucky man, not ever been plagued by Pinterest. But for your amusement, do a search on excluding pinterest from google search results and you'll find a ton of people who want to achieve the same peace and quiet from this 'tormentor'.
:D

Edit: oh if you've never been plagued, don't sign up to check it out, maybe you'll get flooded by it too. ;)
Many thanks. You got me frightened now to even dig deeper in case I get linked to pinterest. I’m wondering if it’s because you’re signed in (knowingly or unknowingly) to your browser, and what happens if you use a browser in incognito mode?
 
Yes, you're probably right -- a cookie may have been dumped. Since I've cleaned up my cache since starting this thread, the pinterest results are at an absolute low. Fingers crossed!
 

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