There are organizations that buy up brands that have an existing userbase and/or decent reputation, the go out and fill the site with AI slop to turn a quick profit.
Which is nice, but the result is that it doesn't matter how many domains full of listicles and dropshipped chinese products you block, more will always show up. Filling up our search personalization lists and making things slow, and less cache-able.
But there is hope: these bought-up-slop domains only last a few months before they're abandoned and the organization moves on to the next (few) domains. We can use this to our advantage:
I can think of a couple approaches, one or more that might help:
- A secundary block button. ex: [block as spam]/[block as other]
- A temporary domain block (6 months). To automatically clean up our search personalization lists of domains no longer actively in use for spam.
- An optional label on blocked domains
- An option to block listicles (the opposite of the listicle widget) as most of the slop resides there
- Community/personal domain labels. And then allowing us to filter (only/exclude) labels
I want my searches for things like "wireless webcams" to not be 10 lists of "best wireless webcams" just to find that those links contain a phone app, a news article, and a bunch of listicles for wireless webcams with a darn wire.
I was kinda hoping to get away from the [search prompt + "reddit"] approach to search. Especcially now that google has an exclusivity contract with reddit.
