Blocking amazon and youtube in searches

[NMNeil]

I'm using Firefox as my browser with Startpage as the search engine.
Every time I do a search for just about anything the first results shown are always fking amazon and/or youtube.
Getting fed up having to type "whatever I'm searching for" -amazon -youtube, and sometimes I forget.
Is there a way to automatically apply the -amazon and -youtube in the form of a script or other method?

[shtu]

could try a different searchengine, eg, duckduckgo?

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-or-remove...

[GranpaB]

Or just scroll past.

[thebraketester]

Add -amazon -youtube to the end of your search request

[Badda]

GranpaB said:

Or just scroll past.

He’s going to be so grateful for this comment. No way he’d have considered that.

[GranpaB]

Badda said:

GranpaB said:

Or just scroll past.

He’s going to be so grateful for this comment. No way he’d have considered that.

How ironic.

[Whoozit]

It's possible to add a default search string to Google in Firefox, but not to Startpage as far as I can see after a few minutes poking around.

As a workaround, save the link below as a bookmark and use that instead of the built in default search. It's an extra couple of clicks, but at least you won't have to type in the exclusions every time.


https://www.startpage.com/sp/search?query=+-amazon...

[Griffith4ever]

Badda said:

GranpaB said:

Or just scroll past.

He’s going to be so grateful for this comment. No way he’d have considered that.

Grandpab posts these kinds of "helpful" Replies pretty much on a daily basis. I'm seeing them more and more. Miserable? Depressed? Drunk? No idea, but he's not a cheery chappy.

[GranpaB]

Griffith4ever said:

Badda said:

GranpaB said:

Or just scroll past.

He’s going to be so grateful for this comment. No way he’d have considered that.

Grandpab posts these kinds of "helpful" Replies pretty much on a daily basis. I'm seeing them more and more. Miserable? Depressed? Drunk? No idea, but he's not a cheery chappy.

Updated username.

[NMNeil]

thebraketester said:

Add -amazon -youtube to the end of your search request

I already do, but as I said sometimes I forget so I wanted the -amazon and -youtube to be the default.

[NMNeil]

Whoozit said:

It's possible to add a default search string to Google in Firefox, but not to Startpage as far as I can see after a few minutes poking around.

As a workaround, save the link below as a bookmark and use that instead of the built in default search. It's an extra couple of clicks, but at least you won't have to type in the exclusions every time.


https://www.startpage.com/sp/search?query=+-amazon...

Thanks' I'll give it a try.
I'm looking at an alternative to Firefox because you used to have full control over it, but now it takes a registry edit to turn of automatic updates, when older versions gave you that option with a checkbox.

[_-XXXX-_]

https://neeva.com/index

Ex Google employee's. Let's face it, Google is just plain st now, ad ad ad ad. Utter st.

Those of us that have been around since the start of the internet remember what made them great, they have fast turned into what they replaced.

Hopefully they go the same way & are confined to history soon.

The greedy bds.

[NMNeil]

_-XXXX-_ said:

https://neeva.com/index

Ex Google employee's. Let's face it, Google is just plain st now, ad ad ad ad. Utter st.

Those of us that have been around since the start of the internet remember what made them great, they have fast turned into what they replaced.

Hopefully they go the same way & are confined to history soon.

The greedy bds.

Thanks for the link, but ads are no problem as my Raspberry Pi Hole successfully blocks them all for my desktop, laptop and ROKU TV