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This is one of the main reasons I use Kagi. I have sites like fandom and fextralife blocked in my search results.

One of the things I miss about early internet years was all the independent fan sites and forums people had. Now, so much is just posted to these garbage platforms that control everything.

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Jarmer@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
and recently the AI written garbage “gamer” websites have become a problem as well. You can tell instantly that some ai just collected and regurgitated a bunch of text that doesn’t even make sense.

Now I pretty much stick just to the fan created wikis. Stuff like bg3.wiki and uesp.net

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janAkali@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I use Metager - it’s FOSS and also has an option to filter out choosen domains from the search results.

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YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
What’s wrong with fextralife? I’m ootl

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- mana@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Fextralife embeds their twitch stream into their site, artificially inflating their twitch viewer numbers, which in turn hurts smaller streamers since fextralife will be sorted first by viewer count.
  
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- val@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  They game SEO to flood search results with articles that are pure, useless placeholders which most of the time will never be written. Even when they’re more than a placeholder page, they’re often wrong outside of a few games because they’re just their to get clicks. Downvote bots were used against links competing wikis, and while Fextralife denies, it they were conveniently spared.
  
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  - YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Oh wow. Is it still worth using on games like elden ring where they have a good amount of info on every page?
    
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    val@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Still haven’t gotten around to playing Elden Ring so I don’t know if there are better alternatives.
    
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