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Comment by hughrr | Hacker News Reader

Pinterest is one of those sites that really makes me want to strangle someone. It’s just an abhorrent walled garden of other people’s property.

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If I were on Pinterest looking up things, fine. But I'm on Google, not trying to find a mirror of what I want, I want what I want.

Edit: I have a friend who works there, but not as an engineer haha I'm pretty sure I've told him my woes with pinterest. My wife loves pinterest though. It allows her to come up with amazing design ideas and art ideas.

The main problem is really just that they show up for basically every search, a bunch of times, and when you click through, you can't get to the image without signing up/in

Pinterest is one of those sites that I would block forever, if I could customise my search experience.

Add this to your browser's search engine list and make it default:

    {google:baseURL}search?q=%s+-site:pinterest.*

If on Firefox, do you need to add the optional search bar (with the magnifying glass) in order to access "Change Search Settings"? Because I'm not finding it anywhere.

Doesn't help with reverse image searches, which accounts for probably 90% of the times I end up clicking on a pinterest link.

That's a brilliant solution, thanks!

As much as I avoid giving google any of my money I would literally pay them to be able to block domains from results.

Why doesn't someone sue them then?

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