'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022 [404 Media]

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• Kyle@lemdro.id ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’d rather surf the web like it’s 2002

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• thingsiplay@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is a search tool that will only return content created before ChatGPT’s first public release on November 30, 2022.

  tegabrain.com/Slop-Evader , the linked source code on Firefox extension page seems to no longer exist: github.com/tegacodes/slop-evader

  So it literally cuts off everything after that date. Why the need for an extension in the browser? One can add max date to any search engine search terms and limit the results too. At least this works with Google, in example before:2022-11-30. This could be a bookmark in example: www.google.com/search?q=before%3A2022-11-30 Note I do not use Google myself. You have to try this with your favorite search engine yourself.

  While I think the idea is good to search everything before, I am not certain we need a closed source extension for if we could just add a search term to it manually. And this does not really solve searching the web with content after that date. Still need a better solution to this, especially if time goes on.

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  • dosboy0xff@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    One can add max date to any search engine search terms and limit the results too.

    Looks like that’s apparently exactly what it’s doing: github.com/tegacodes/slop-evader/blob/…/popup.js

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  • leftascenter@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why the need for an extension in the browser? One can add max date to any search engine search terms and limit the results too.

    Because it’s not an extension or a tech tool. It’s an art project, in the form of an extension. The purpose is not the tool, but the message.

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• helix@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Wish there was a similar extension or ublock blocklist which simply blocks AI slop domains.

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  • Courantdair@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    github.com/…/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist

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    • ElectricAirship@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Thanks for this

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    • thingsiplay@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Nice list. I’ve added it too, can’t hurt. Although with these third party blocking lists we get dependent on what we can see and not based on others “taste”. But I guess this is the price we pay.

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• HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  2022 was still not that good of a year for the internet guys.

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