#ublacklist

SO. step one, you want to download uBlacklist, which is available for both FireFox and Chrome. Not sure about anything else.

Once you've added it to your browser, you want to find the widget on your toolbar that shows all of your extensions.

Click on uBlacklist, and it will show a little window like this.

Do NOT hit block, unless you really hate being here (something something hellsite). You're going to hit Options, which will take you to a page that looks like this.

(I actually have 38 lines of blocked websites. They are all AI generators, or pages that I could not trust to not post AI images.)

Now, unfortunately, tumblr hates making things easy, and as such I cannot attach the text file that contains my exported list of blocked sites. so what youre going to do is take the list below, copy it, and paste it into the "sites blocked" window, then hit save.

uBlacklist Blocklist (it's long.)

://www.dreamstime.com/ ://www.freepik.com/ ://www.craiyon.com/ ://stock.adobe.com/ ://storybird.ai/ ://www.dinosaur.org/ ://pngtree.com/ ://creator.nightcafe.studio/ ://www.123rf.com/ ://lumenor.ai/ ://neural.love/ ://www.vecteezy.com/ ://openart.ai/ ://www.artpal.com/ ://generativeai.pub/ ://promptbase.com/ ://www.prompthunt.com/ ://holy-gems.com/ ://pngtree.com/ ://stock.adobe.com/ ://creator.nightcafe.studio/ ://starryai.com/ ://www.craiyon.com/ ://blog.catholicai.app/ ://www.vecteezy.com/ ://pixai.art/ ://civitai.com/ ://stablediffusionweb.com/ ://easy-peasy.ai/ ://openart.ai/ ://neural.love/ ://stablecog.com/ ://www.seaart.ai/ ://shedevrum.ai/ ://arthub.ai/ ://imageai.app/ ://www.2moonsai.com/

This will shield you from the demon for a bit. The other benefit is, if you find another site not listed here that posts AI photos, uBlacklist gives you this fun little button so you can block the site without going through all of this again!

(I was looking at tiefling references. don't judge me)

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.

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.

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:

If you'd like your page to be fixed, please refer to the following posts:

Version 1.0 with additional revisions: Initial Tumblr fixes and changes on other portions of the internet, such as removing paywalls and blacklisting a wide swath of Digital Hapsburg Engine ("AI art") websites

Version 2.0 to fix the new September Tumblr updates