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mrweasel 4 days ago

I love that it just includes all of msn.com.

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mrbluecoat 4 days ago | parent [-]

I guess the author's "boiling hatred to bad tech support articles" leads to some overreach

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popcar2 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

This doesn't block you from visiting MSN, but it does stop their articles from appearing in search. The reason is that MSN just re-hosts articles from other sites rather than provide anything of value. MSN posts often outrank their original source because Microsoft is pushing it hard on Windows/Bing/Edge.

For example: https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/jodie-foster-heckled-a... is just a re-hosted version https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/jod...

My hope in hiding MSN is to allow the original sources to rise back up to the top.

	▲	roskelld 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I'm going to have a look at this. I currently run a script that adds `-site:msn.com` to all of my DDG searches. It's kinda ugly.
	▲	qingcharles 4 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		My small rebuttal to that is that msn.com occasionally has articles they've sucked in that are paywalled on the original sites. But I have archive.is for the most part to get around that issue.

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qingcharles 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

msn.com is actually useful from time-to-time as they have syndicated articles which are otherwise stuck behind paywalls on other sites.