Remove news media partnered with OpenAI from your search results
Over on Bluesky 707kat posted this Mashable article about news media that have signed contracts to let OpenAI scrape their content in a "well, we can't beat them, so we might as well join them" move.
Plus, all the companies that are suing OpenAI for copyright infringement.
I responded by making a uBlacklist list of all of their websites so you can block them from your search results. As far as I'm aware all of the contracts in the article are still in effect, though NowThis is no longer part of Vox Media. Intelligencer and The Strategist have nymag URLs so they are filtered by the nymag rule.
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Using the list
To use the uBlacklist list in Firefox:
Go to about:addons.
Hit the 3 dots on the entry for uBlacklist and go to Preferences.
Copy the list from Pastebin and paste it into your list of blocked sites.
Hit Save in the bottom right!!!
In Chrome, you'll want to get to the uBlacklist options to paste the list, which you can do from the toolbar icon, or by going to chrome-extension://pncfbmialoiaghdehhbnbhkkgmjanfhe/pages/options.html (if you want to get there manually it's Main Menu > Extensions > Manage Extensions > Details button on the uBlacklist entry > scroll all the way down until you see Extension Options).
I'm not able to test Safari currently, but it shouldn't be too hard to get into the preferences/options for uBlacklist there.
Don't have uBlacklist?
It's available for Firefox, Chrome, and Safari. The getting started guide is here:
Install
It's also great for blocking AI sites en masse - I use this list to do that.