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moccachino | 6 years ago

They have actually had one positive influence on my life. After having dealt with exactly what you described a few times, I learned that I don't need anything that's on Pinterest. If a search results returns a pinterest link, I ignore it. If I can't find it anywhere except that link, it's as good as a dead link so I move on. This can be extended to much of the internet. So much peace now.

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mikestew|6 years ago

It is one of my main uses of Pi-Hole: “never, ever let anything from that domain into my network ever again.” If I accidentally click a link, it doesn’t go anywhere. I use it for quite a few domains that show up in a lot of places, but have proven to be an annoyance. I’m believe Pinterest was one of the first to be added for that reason.

The ad blocking Pi-Hole provides is a nice bonus, too.

whatshisface|6 years ago

It would be cool if this could be extended to automatically clearing those junk sites off Google's results, maybe by querying for a few extra pages, deleting the garbage, and then re-assembling them into fewer pages. Google spam filters would be great, I could also put in a rule to eliminate any page title that starts with a number ("Ten great ways to...").

yibg|6 years ago

I’m the exact same. Over time I’ve been trained to ignore every link from google search results that points to Pinterest.

dorgo|6 years ago

Why not use an addon? My addon removes all search results for facebook, pinterest

saiya-jin|6 years ago

Sounds like my experience too. Any link on pinterest image, ie from google search is met with login/register form. Well pardon my english but screw that approach, pinterest doesn't exist for me.

droithomme|6 years ago

Same here, I have their domains blocked in my hosts so if I accidentally click I don't see anything.

dbatten|6 years ago

I constantly tack "-pinterest" on to the end of Google searches...