Blocks specific sites from appearing in search results by Google, Bing, Brave, Duckduckgo, Ecosia, Quant, SearX, Startpage.com, Yahoo! Japan, Yandex
You can block sites from within search result pages or on sites themselves by clicking the toolbar icon.
You can synchronize rulesets across devices via cloud storage- Google Drive and Dropbox are supported.
This can help to reduce spam and malicious results appearing in your searches.
You can also subscribe to public rulesets. See tables below and these pages:
https://iorate.github.io/ublacklist/subscriptions
https://github.com/rjaus/awesome-ublacklist
https://github.com/eallion/uBlacklist-subscription-compilation (Chinese compilation and master list)
Chrome Web Store / Firefox Add-ons / App Store
Sites which 'should' be blocked from search engines - but aren't on other subscription lists - UK focus
My personal list of sites not caught by lists I subscribe to below. As I live in the UK, many of these sites will be United Kingdom domains.
No major sites are blocked by these lists but I can't guarantee that some minor poor quality authentic sites don't get blocked
| Name | URL | Chrome Link |
|---|---|---|
| Nicoles - spam | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nicoleahmed/nicoles-ublacklist/main/nicoles_ubl.txt | Subscribe - Chrome |
These are popular and broad-ranging lists. Most of these lists are maintained by individuals - so whilst they have not impacted on my web browsing experience, you should always check the lists yourself first. If you are more concerned about quickly getting rid of lots of low quality content subscribe away.
I don't use these filter lists- they may stop being updated or change. Feel free to create an issue for any comments.
See more NyeUsr block lists here
I don't use these filter lists.
| Name | URL | Chrome Link |
|---|---|---|
| wikivncopy by Recommendations (archived) | https://codeberg.org/Recommendations/wikivncopy/raw/branch/main/ublacklist-wikivncopy.txt | Subscribe - Chrome |
| Name | URL | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| NSDE- SpamBlacklist | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nsde/spam-blacklist/main/spam-sites.txt | User closed github account |
| Ite Usagi - AI | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ite-usagi/ublacklist-noai/main/uBlacklist.txt | Archived as merged into https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist |
| Ranmaru22- AI art | https://codeberg.org/ranmaru22/ublacklist-anti-ai-art-subscription/raw/branch/main/list.txt | Incorporated into Super SEO Spam Suppressor |
| Divine engine - junk - content farms - feeb - C&J marketing | https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/DivineEngine/uBlacklist@master/blacklist.txt | Not available |
Seirdy has written a great guide to search engines which gives information and reviews of search engines. They also discuss why choosing a search engine wisely matters from privacy, conflicts of interest, and information diversity points of view.
A useful search engine map which shows how search engines are linked by indexes (and how little choice we really have) created by Mojeek - but needs updating as of 6/1/25.
Search engine party provides an overview of privacy and security features of search engines.
Nicholas Ferrell's guide to alternative search engines.