Best Way to Block Content Scrapers from Search
Patrick Bushe · May 1, 2026
Scraper sites copy articles from elsewhere and wrap them in ads. To stop seeing them, block each one as you find it with uBlacklist, a free extension that hides blocked sites from Google and other search engines, or add -site: and the site's address to a search. Blocking a site only hides it from results; it doesn't change how fast other pages load. Search Cleaner doesn't block individual sites; it hides sections of Google's results page, such as the AI Overview, ads, shopping boxes and "People also ask".
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