btw, if you use https://kagi.com/ , they have a workflow for this: if you are on a site, and they popup a modal asking for you to sign up for something, you click back to the kagi.com search results, click the shield icon, and then click block. Now you'll never see that site show up again in your search results.

I've found those sites that want you to sign up for stuff usually have poor content to begin with, so this is just helping you curate out all the bad content out there.

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thousand_nights 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

sadly sometimes it's e-commerce websites where you actually want to buy their product and they interrupt you three times with "sign up to our newsletter and get 5% off with the code" modals, like they're actively trying to frustrate me into not giving them my money

	▲	kevin_thibedeau an hour ago \| parent [-]
		It's infuriating when you click on the search box, start typing, and the modal pops up disrupting your attempt to give them money.

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TheUnhinged 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

DuckDuckGo has that feature, too.

	▲	dhosek 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They have it hidden behind a … menu though which is unfortunate because it’s a great feature to have.

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isodev 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

But if you truly care about privacy or any kind of control, just don’t use kagi

	▲	wolvoleo 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I assume you mean because you have to be logged in in order to use kagi? They do have anonimised logins for this though: https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-privacy-pass which is a pretty good mitigation IMO. As it's a paid service of course proving you paid is a must. And as for control, I can't agree there. Kagi offers more control than any other search engine through its lenses and the ability to influence the ranking of search results from specific sites. I don't use their service at the moment, I'm pretty ok with my self hosted SearXNG and I like being able to customise the look and feel there too. But Kagi is excellent as search engines go.
	▲	reciprocity 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		How does one make a comment like this, I wonder, and not substantiate.
	▲	jjtheblunt 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		why would you say that?
	▲	DANmode 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Say more, or say less.
	▲	neodymiumphish 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Uh, what? Wanna explain why?