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This is one of the main reasons I use Kagi. I have sites like fandom and fextralife blocked in my search results.
One of the things I miss about early internet years was all the independent fan sites and forums people had. Now, so much is just posted to these garbage platforms that control everything.
Yes!! Gotta love Kagi and the ability to tailor search results to be exactly what you want.
and recently the AI written garbage "gamer" websites have become a problem as well. You can tell instantly that some ai just collected and regurgitated a bunch of text that doesn't even make sense.
Now I pretty much stick just to the fan created wikis. Stuff like bg3.wiki and uesp.net
I use Metager instead - it's FOSS and also has an option to filter out choosen domains from the search results.
What's wrong with fextralife? I'm ootl
Fextralife embeds their twitch stream into their site, artificially inflating their twitch viewer numbers, which in turn hurts smaller streamers since fextralife will be sorted first by viewer count.
They game SEO to flood search results with articles that are pure, useless placeholders which most of the time will never be written. Even when they're more than a placeholder page, they're often wrong outside of a few games because they're just there to get clicks. Downvote bots were used against links to competing wikis, and while Fextralife denies it, they were conveniently spared.
There is more shady behavior out there around Fextra, but the most important thing for a user is there is almost always a better wiki that's being suppressed in the search results. If you blacklist the site you're a lot more likely to find something useful.
Oh wow. Is it still worth using on games like elden ring where they have a good amount of info on every page?
Still haven't gotten around to playing Elden Ring so I don't know if there are better alternatives.