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Quenhuson Shutting down the letsblock.it project and its official instance

I'm sad to learn this projet is shutting down. The maintainer (xvello) contributed a lot to my uBlock dev filter [0]. We tried to reduce the time lost on deceptive and low-quality content for search engine users. Generative ML and aggressive SEO technics hit hard.

Bye letsblockit and I wish you well @xvello.

[0] https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter

Quenhuson Google search's death by a thousand cuts

I'm not OP, but here is my own uBlock filter with hundreds of GitHub/StackOverflow copycats: https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter

Quenhuson Google search's death by a thousand cuts

For those on Google or DDG, here is my uBlock filter with hundreds of GitHub/StackOverflow copycats: https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter

It blocks copycats and hide them from multiple search engines. You may also use the list with uBlacklist.

Quenhuson Kagi/Orion status update: First three months

For those still on Google or DDG, here is my uBlock filter with hundreds of GitHub/StackOverflow copycats: https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter

It blocks copycats and hide them from multiple search engines. You may also use the list with uBlacklist.

Quenhuson Google Search Results Plagued with spam “.it” domains

Here is my uBlock filter with hundreds of GitHub/StackOverflow copycats: https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter

It blocks copycats and hide them from multiple search engines. You may also use the list with uBlacklist.

Quenhuson Filters to block and remove copycat-websites from DuckDuckGo, Google and other

Thanks for your incredibly fast response and help. (Do you have a notification when your username is invoked in HN?) And of course, thanks for uBO!

In my case, the issue is that GitHub doesn't allow the apb|ubo protocol in links. However, no problem, I can use the method with "subscribe.adblockplus.org". Yet, subscribing from contextual menu is a great feature.

Quenhuson Filters to block and remove copycat-websites from DuckDuckGo, Google and other

That's actually really cool, thanks! However, the link don't work from HN for me. For the link to work, users need to click from a trusted domain listed here https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/bba4732c6b47134c3f54e...

Quenhuson Filters to block and remove copycat-websites from DuckDuckGo, Google and other

As the author of the filter, I strongly agree with you. However, I believe it would be too tedious for most people to update the filter "by hand". I think I'm going to add this important security information in the README.

Quenhuson Google Search Is Dying

Here is my uBlock filter with hundreds of GitHub/StackOverflow copycats: https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter

It blocks copycats and hide them from multiple search engines. You may also use the list with uBlacklist.

Quenhuson Search engines and SEO spam

For developers, you can remove some spam websites from Google and other search engines, with these uBlock filters: https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter

Quenhuson uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results

I don't know what to do with it. You can't find Github Wiki results on search engine because of Github's robots.txt. The project is thus quite legit. Source: https://github-wiki-see.page/

Quenhuson uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results

I just added a filters list for Github copycats in the Gist https://gist.github.com/quenhus/6bd2c47e5780f726f0c96c0a2ee7... . List of domains taken from https://github.com/arosh/ublacklist-github-translation

Quenhuson uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results

As others have said, it can also be done with a uBlock filter.

For example, here are my filters that block and remove terrible copycats/translations of StackOverflow https://gist.github.com/quenhus/6bd2c47e5780f726f0c96c0a2ee7... . I hate these copies that somehow manage to be better referenced than StackOverflow.

Quenhuson A new $69M NFT was sleepminted

To me, the author doesn't fully understand how Smart Contract, NFT and ownership work.

It is as if he wrote "NFTheft owns the Joconde" in a Word document, printed it, signed it and tried to prove to the world that he truly owns the Joconde. It doesn't work that way with NTF, nor in real life. Ownership is a consensus.

You can verify the real owner of the token with [0] > Contract > Read > "16. Owner Of" and type "40913", as explain on the original marketplace [1].

However, what he highlights is that Smart Contract doesn't prevent the code from being malicious, in the same way than HTTPS doesn't prevent a website to be hackable. To be even more precise, ERC721 is a code interface. Its implementation is not universal, and thus can be malicious.

[0] https://etherscan.io/token/0x2a46f2ffd99e19a89476e2f62270e0a...

[1] https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/first-open-beeple/beeple-...

Quenhuson Ask HN: How much could I estimate my project?

Thanks for the advice. I don't think that a company is interested about this project. However, it would be absolutely awesome and I might start looking for that when I will be a little bit more professional.

Quenhuson Ask HN: How much could I estimate my project?

Yes I'm a student so $200/day sounds great. Though, I'm not even sure that a company could be interested about my project. I was not asking its value in order to sell it, but just to start conceiving how much does a a project cost for a company. Thanks a lot for your reply.

Quenhuson Ask HN: How much could I estimate my project?

Thanks a lot. It looks like a really fair estimate, much more reasonable than what I would be able to provide.

It seems absolutely unbelievable for me that my project costs so much, but it makes me proud of my work.