Comment by cormorant
I'm fed up too. Spammy, AI-looking sites are showing up more and more. For some reason, many of them use the same Wordpress theme with a light gray table of contents - they look like this: https://imgur.com/a/totally-not-ai-generated-efsumgZ
The problem seems worse on "alternative" search engines, e.g. DuckDuckGo and Kagi, which both use Bing. It's been driving me back to Google.
A blocklist seems like a losing proposition, unless, like adblock filter lists, it balloons to tens of thousands of entries and gets updated constantly.
Unfortunately, this kind of blocklist is highly subjective. This list blocks MSN.com! That's hardly what I would have chosen.
Even Google is plagued by spam, I've tried all sorts of search techniques and alternative engines but I feel like the only solution seems to be doing things manually. I was already starting to block things by myself but I thought it'd be more productive to make the list public and try crowdsourcing. Even now, searching "how to partition a hard disk" would often drive you to low-effort sites telling you to use their software.
> Unfortunately, this kind of blocklist is highly subjective. This list blocks MSN.com! That's hardly what I would have chosen.
It's definitely a bit opinionated, but it's open to discussion - you can create an unblock request issue (if you care enough to do so, of course!). The reason I blocked MSN is that it just re-hosts articles from other websites, so I'd rather see the official source than be tricked into Microsoft's site which is very annoying, like how it opens another article if you scroll too fast down.