Super SEO Spam Suppressor (SSSS¹)

A blocklist targeting websites abusing SEO tactics to spam web searches with data pollution and security risks: content farms, scrapers, copycats, generative AIs, scams, advertisements, malwares, and useless garbage in general. It is best used with uBlacklist.

Our website is now optimized to supply content to Google, not build an audience of its own.
Mia Sato, "The Perfect Webpage", The Verge.

Since 2019, Google's search functions are being destroyed: it is now scientifically proven that the biggest search engine on the internet has become a barely useable, terminally enshittified mess, merely a husk of the wonderful discovery tool it was yesterday. Do you want to learn about thing? How about buying thing and consuming thing instead? Its drive to commercialize our every online interaction also has consequences on other, much more user friendly search engines such as DuckDuckGo, whose indexers crawl through shit optimized for Google's terrible algorithm. Plus the latest trend of so-called "artificial intelligence" generative models produces even more garbage at an ever growing pace. This list is, as any good adblocking tool is, an attempt to escape this neverending capitalist coercition and attention theft. All of the tech giants play this game so consider also using a social media blocklist.

This blocklist is left in the public domain (Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License).

Browser extensions

uBlacklist syntax

Blocklist in uBlacklist format to use with uBlacklist. It removes blocked sites from search engine results.

Click here to subscribe. (This automatic subscription link is only compatible with Chrome, you have to add it by yourself on other browsers!)

AdBlock Plus syntax

Blocklist in AdBlock format to use with an adblocker (uBlock Origin, Adguard…) or Adguard Home. It uses a strict blocking rule to block access to those sites on your browser.

Click here to subscribe.

DNS blockers

Hosts format

Blocklist in Hosts format to use in a hosts file or Pi-hole.

IPV6 version.

Known issue: Firefox's DNS over HTTPS option bypasses the computer's hosts file ruleset.

Dnsmasq format

Blocklist in Dnsmasq format to use with the Dnsmasq DNS server software.

pdnsd format

Blocklist in pdnsd format to use with the pdnsd caching DNS proxy server software.

Fediverse formats

Mastodon

Blocklist in Mastodon format to use with Mastodon and other federated services. It will defederate from blocked instances.

Fediblockhole

Blocklist in FediBlockHole format to use with the FediBlockHole tool for Mastodon. It will defederate from blocked instances.

How to contribute

Clone this repository and add one domain per line in .txt files stored in the sources/domains folder. Blocked sites are organized using subfolders and .txt files within the sources/domains folder. Use comments (#) and markdown files (.md) to add more information and references.

For the https://www.example.com website, add example.com on a new line of the sources/domains/default.txt file.

You can paste the full URL: the update script will clean it and make it a domain. As the hosts format does not automatically block subdomains (e.g. subdomain.example.com), they have to be explicitely added to the list to maintain compatibility.

It is possible to add TLDs (e.g. com, without the dot) to the list, they will be blocked by Dnsmasq, adblockers and uBlacklist. Domains related to Fediverse instances (Mastodon, Peertube, etc.) should be put in .txt files with fediverse in their names (e.g. Bad Fediverse is bad.txt) so that they are included in the Fediverse blocklists.

Then, when you push your changes to the sources folder, GitHub actions automatically generate new versions of the blocklists. Should you want to generate them yourself, you can run the scripts/update.sh script (prerequisites : bash, python).

Finally, make a pull request: it will be reviewed and approved within a few days.

Importing an external list

External lists can be imported by adding them to the sources/imports/importlist.txt as a new line in the following format: list name.txt|url. They are automatically downloaded twice a day, cleaned (some formats only), copied to the sources/domains/_imported/ folder and thus added to the list generation database. The domain list in the sources/imports/allowlist.txt file serves as an exception ruleset for imported lists.

How to contribute (easy mode)

If you have no idea how Git works, you can still contribute! Just open an issue with the URLs you would like to add to the list (or remove, false positives happen!), grouping them by language and categories if possible. We'll check and add them shortly.

Report malicious websites

The next best thing to do after adding a malicious website (malware, phishing, scam) to this list is to to report it so it actually doesn't show up in searches, or even gets taken offline by its host or registrar! Here's a video guide on how to do it: How Anyone Can DESTROY A Scam Website in Minutes 😤 (Scammers Will HATE This).

Sites to report malicious URLs:

• Search engines:
  • Google SafeBrowsing
  • Microsoft
• Cybersecurity providers:
  • Fortiguard
  • BrightCloud
  • CRDF
  • Netcraft
  • Palo Alto Networks
  • ESET
  • Trend Micro
  • Forcepoint
  • Spam404
  • Cisco Talos
  • URLhaus
• Antivirus publishers:
  • BitDefender
  • McAfee
  • Symantec
  • Kaspersky
  • Avira
  • Avast
• Phishing databases:
  • Phishing Initiative
  • PhishTank
  • OpenPhish via e-mail

Aggregated lists

This blocklist borrows from the following projects:

• the blocklist generation code and readme that I co-wrote for rimu's No-QAnon (anti-fascist licence).
• the full blocklist from quenhus' uBlock-Origin-dev-filter (The Unlicense, public domain).
• the full blocklist from no-cmyk's Search Engine Spam Blocklist (no licence).
• the full blocklist from franga2000's AliExpress fake site blocker (no licence).
• the full blocklist from levitation's fork of AliExpress fake site blocker (no licence).
• the full blocklist from Red Flag Domains (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).
• the full blocklist from insomnimus' seo-garbage (Apache License).
• the antipup domains, antitypo domains and clickbait domains blocklists from iam-py-test's my_filters_001 (CC0 1.0 Universal).
• the full blocklist from LiamDawe's steamdeck_spamblock (MIT License).
• the full blocklist from ite-usagi's ublacklist-noai (MIT License).
• the full blocklist from PrincessAkira's ublacklist-ai (Apache License 2.0).
• the full blocklist from arosh's uBlacklist GitHub Translation (CC0 1.0 Universal).
• the full blocklist from arosh's uBlacklist Stack Overflow Translation (CC0 1.0 Universal).
• the full blocklist from ranmaru22's ublacklist-anti-ai-art-subscription (no licence).
• the full blocklist from elliotwutingfeng's Spamdexing Sites (BSD-3-Clause License).
• the full blocklist from pihole-blacklists' Pi-hole Blacklists (no licence).

Fandom (formerly known as Wikia)

Fandom is bad for a number of reasons, including aggressive SEO tactics and stealing content from its contributors. This list is not blocking its search results, which consistently appear on top of any fan-wiki related request, but instead advises to install extensions such as Indie Wiki Buddy and wiki.gg Redirect. These take advantage of these SEO boosted results to replace them with redirection to independent and community owned wikis.

Other useful lists

• Jmdugan Blocklists: Consider blocking social media and big tech corporations.
• ublacklist-pinterest: Pinterest is also SEO spamming.

Footnotes

1. It's a Gridman reference. I'm spelling it out because it's also the name of a skin disease: don't go looking for SSSS on image search. ↩