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.

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.

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.