I've never tried it, but allegedly, if you want to block sites from your search results, Kagi can do this.
It's a paid product. Hopefully that results in better incentive alignment. Google has been caught showing worse results on purpose, so you'll view more pages of results and therefore more ads. On 2 July 2025 4:03:52 am GMT+02:00, "Constantine A. Murenin via NANOG" <[email protected]> wrote: >On Tue, 1 Jul 2025 at 09:15, Brandon Butterworth via NANOG ><[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 01/07/2025 15:05:16, "Johannes Müller Aguilar via NANOG" >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >For about a month, users behind IP addresses we announce have been prompted >> >to solve captchas when accessing Cloudflare-proxied sites. >> >> I've seen that increase and now regularly get it on home >> broadband services, others have reported this too. I suspect >> many are getting it and assumed this is the new normal. > >I'm seeing this on StackOverflow / StackExchange on my home broadband as well. > >Having to wait half a minute to glance at a search result completely >ruins the use-case for said result. If your time is worth $120/h, >that's a $1 for each StackOverflow visit just to open the page, >obviously it's cheaper to use AI at that point, so, no idea what >they're thinking killing their own market. > >I wish Google Search would let people blacklist StackOverflow as long >as they're a Cloudflare user; or, heck, anything with these captchas. >It's effectively just search spam with all those captchas. > >But the "best" part about the security industry, is that because I do >close the window in less than a second, Cloudflare probably reports my >visit attempt as saving StackOverflow from yet another bot! "Look how >many bots we've saved you from!" > >I'd like to see the metrics from Cloudflare and the other captcha >vendors on how they justify wasting billions of dollars in lost >productivity. It probably costs way-way-way-way less than $0.01 to >serve a page for which the legitimate users must now waste $1 in lost >income. There's probably a 10000x amplification factor for real users >wasting resources compared to how much resources are saved from the >most basic bots that can't get through, bravo! All for what? > >Did anyone think of the environment, how much computing resources are >wasted by everyone proving that they're not a bot? > >C. >_______________________________________________ >NANOG mailing list >https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/ROWRSJDJKROFAH54DJ3ATVMTG4JTQGFL/ _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/VM7N7JDG67I6VF3FJS73R7H57UHHBGD3/
