This doesn't have anything to do with privacy.
this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2025
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Seeing this shit feels like an advertisement though, in a way.
Thank you! I got it installed!
I would prefer one that removed AI slop sites from search but I suppose if a site has AI images then it's for all intents and purposes slop anyway.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublacklist/
You'll probably have to sync the last manually but it'll do that.
https://codeberg.org/ArrayPirate/ShittyAiBlocklist
You're welcome.
Thanks for recommending :) Please contribute some links if you spot shitty websites made with LLM.
Will do, I'm already a contributor (to docs) 😉
Wait I'm pretty sure this does that as well 🤔
It says "for the purposes of cleaning image search engines" but also I'm sure the venn diagram of sites with AI images and slop sites with AI text are nearly a circle.
Kagi will let you block slop sites (but you have to manually block each one)
How are you liking Kagi? Is it worth it?
As someone who spends a lot of time searching and is tired of AI slop, tracking, and targeted ads, it's a breath of fresh air.
It provides a level of quality and control you don't get from the Brave/DDGs of the world, and a reliability that's hard to match with the SearXNGs.
It took a bit of mental back and forth to get comfortable paying for something that has historically been "free", but I'm alright with it.
I'd love to see more FOSS competition (or frankly any competition) out there but hosting a reliable search engine is difficult and expensive.
It's cheaper than any of my streaming subscriptions and I use it 10x as much, so I'm good paying the price.