{"id":24268,"date":"2022-06-21T08:03:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T12:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=24268"},"modified":"2022-06-21T08:03:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T12:03:05","slug":"chrome-browser-extension-allows-users-to-remove-specific-sites-from-search-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/chrome-browser-extension-allows-users-to-remove-specific-sites-from-search-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Chrome Browser Extension Allows Users To Remove Specific Sites From Search Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-ar-index=\"0\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The uBlackList browser extension allows users to edit search results by removing specific sites when doing Google, DuckDuckGo, and Bing online searches.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">uBlackList is a browser extension for both Chromium and Firefox that enables users to enter a list of websites to be blocked from search results.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"4\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whether these sites are low quality or contain misleading information, uBlackList can prevent them from popping up on Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, Qwant, StartPage, and Yahoo! Japan search engines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"6\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To begin using uBlackList, install the browser extension from the Chrome Web Store or Firefox Add-ons page. Once done, click on the extension&#8217;s icon and select &#8216;Options&#8217; to configure the extension.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"8\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once on the options screen, users may add the sites they wish to block from search results through regular expressions or match patterns.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"10\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moreover, the extension also has a &#8216;Block this site&#8221; link next to URLs shown in search results, seamlessly enabling users to block sites as they see them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"12\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is also possible to configure a URL that has a list of patterns that should be blocked, which will then be downloaded and updated periodically.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"14\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Furthermore, users may configure the extension to synchronize settings across the Google Cloud, enabling users to have the same settings on various browsers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"16\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Users who want to try out uBlackList may install it from the Google Chrome Web Store or Mozilla Firefox Add-ons page or download it from the project&#8217;s GitHub page.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"17\">\n<p data-ar-index=\"18\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more information, read the original story in Bleepingcomputer. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The uBlackList browser extension allows users to edit search results by removing specific sites when doing Google, DuckDuckGo, and Bing online searches. uBlackList is a browser extension for both Chromium and Firefox that enables users to enter a list of websites to be blocked from search results. Whether these sites are low quality or contain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[349,21,16,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-emerging-tech","category-security","category-software"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24270,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24268\/revisions\/24270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}