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[ajdegol]

That site is pretty painful to visit. Is it someone’s business model to submit stuff like this to hacker news?

Edit: I mean it’s called BigThink; does the flashing adverts (on mobile) between every sentence not make that name a little ironic?

[rendall → ajdegol]

BigThink inspired me to find out if it's possible to exclude results from Google search results. It's not. At least, not through Google.

With DuckDuckGo, it's possible by including `-site:bigthink.com` in the search query

[miahi → rendall]

The same -site:bigthink.com flag works on Google searches.

[aendruk → rendall]

Google used to provide a way to do this, but removed it (see killedbygoogle #674) around the same time they dropped "don't be evil".

[onorton → rendall]

You can exclude search terms on google with a "-" prefix including websites e.g. "-twitter" "-bigthink"

[Tenoke → ajdegol]

Also clicking on the image when it said 'click on image to zoom' led me to multiple ad sites.

[megablast → Tenoke]

Worked for me: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DM6Z-WuXUAQ9T66.jpg

[fifnir → Tenoke]

And privacy badger automatically blocks 15 (!!) different cookies in there

[nscalf → ajdegol]

You should try out the brave browser. Using it on my laptop, I actually thought this was a fine site until I saw the comments, that's how effective it is at blocking some of these anti-consumer patterns.

[IanSanders → nscalf]

How does it compare to ublock?

[mirimir → ajdegol]

Huh. I was saved from the ads, but the XSS to Stripe creeps me. Maybe it's an exploit, checking whether I have an account, or am logged in. Or maybe not. But still creepy.