Hide w3schools on DuckDuckGo

Removes w3schools[dot]com links from DuckDuckGo search results
What is Hide w3schools on DuckDuckGo?
Hide w3schools on DuckDuckGo is a Firefox add-on that removes w3schools.com links from search results. It helps to eliminate the annoyance caused by the proprietary website and its lack of open information, presence of trackers, and targeted advertisements.
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Add-on stats

By: Inan Hira
Users: 50 ▲ 1
Rating: 5.00 (2)
Version: 1.1.4 (Last updated: 2024-09-16)
Creation date: 2020-07-16
Weekly download count: 1
Firefox on Android: Yes
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood: Moderate risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Size: 41.64K
URLs: Website

Ranking

# 13260 ▲ 58
Other rankings
#31 in school keyword 38 ▲ 1 #64 in choose keyword 1 #148 in result keyword 13 ▼ 1 #200 in seo keyword 59 ▲ 4

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Add-on summary

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tl;dr: This is a simple Firefox add-on to remove w3schools links from DuckDuckGo search results.

w3schools is a proprietary website that provide information about web technologies like HTML, CSS, Javascript etc. Even though their SEO is top notch there are problems with their content:

  1. The information they provide is not crowdsourced and open like MDN, often lacking proper documentaion, examples and sources.
  2. Their webpages contain various third party cookies and trackers
  3. They serve targeted advertisements which could be inconvenient for their users
With all those problems, it is annoying to see them as top results on DuckDuckGo.

While helping websites like MDN to improve their SEO for better placement on search results is an option in the long run, this small tool helps to get rid of the annoyance.

This add-on is inspired by Hide w3schools add-on by Stefano Nardo. That add-on works for Google search results.

This add-on is open source, and the source is available at https://git.sr.ht/~eih/hide-w3schools-ddg for you to inspect and improve.

User reviews

Edit: Well, it seems to only work if I manually type in duckduckgo.com and navigate to the page and then use the searchbar on that page. But I use Firefox's duckduckgo search engine. Not as my default search engine but as a one-off search engine. That is, I type "@ddg w3schools" into the address bar and hit enter. And w3schools.com results will still show up on the page. See this URL for example: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=w3schools&ia=web
by aminomancer, 2022-06-02
by nasso, 2020-10-09
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Add-on safety

Risk impact

Hide w3schools on DuckDuckGo requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Hide w3schools on DuckDuckGo is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.

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