Reviews of Personal Blocklist (not by Google)

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List of user reviews and ratings for Personal Blocklist (not by Google)

Total ratings

3.77 (Rating count: 143)

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Review summary

Pros and cons emerge from mixed experiences. Users praise the add-on for its simplicity and for significantly reducing clutter by blocking numerous noisy sites in Google search results, with practical benefits like exporting/importing the block list. However, a large portion of reviews report the extension as broken or outdated and not reliably working in Firefox. Key drawbacks include a hard limit on blocked domains, inconsistent blocking across contexts (some sites or image searches slip through), a nuisance popup, and occasional incorrect blocks. Overall, it can help, but reliability and scalability are major concerns.

Pros

Easy to use and manage the block list.
Effectively removes noisy sites from Google search results (e.g., Reddit, TechRadar, Fextralife).
Supports exporting and importing the block list for backup or reuse.
Helps reduce search clutter by curating the domains you see in results.

Cons

Often broken or outdated and not reliably working in Firefox (no updates for years).
Incomplete blocking: some sites (e.g., Twitter) slip through and image-search results are not consistently blocked.
Has a hard cap on blocked domains (about 403) with no clear way to increase it.
Popup UI can appear at inopportune moments, leading to accidental unblocking.
Occasionally blocks the wrong domains (e.g., ft.com blocking microsoft.com).

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User Reviews

Recent rating average: 2.40

All time rating average: 3.77

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18% (27)

Date	Author	Comment
2026-03-09	ar*****	установил и забыл о проблеме
установил и забыл о проблеме
2025-12-15	Ke*****	pretty useful and convenient
pretty useful and convenient
2025-11-03	Fi*****	broken
broken
2025-04-10	De*****

2025-04-03	vi*****	NOT WORKING !
NOT WORKING !
2025-04-01	Ta*****

2025-03-20	Ad*****	According to the project's Github page this extension wasn't updated in 6 years. It does not work in Firefox any more.
According to the project's Github page this extension wasn't updated in 6 years. It does not work in Firefox any more.
2024-07-06	se*****	Just straight up doesn't work. Won't even block the exact page you blocked from showing up in results, let alone the entire site or domain. I really wanted fandoms' ad-filled inaccurate wikis removed from my searches
Just straight up doesn't work. Won't even block the exact page you blocked from showing up in results, let alone the entire site or domain. I really wanted fandoms' ad-filled inaccurate wikis removed from my searches
2024-07-03	Du*****	cette daube ne marche pas
cette daube ne marche pas
2024-06-14	en*****	This works well, except for the fact that the block link pops up right when I'm about to click on a link, and gets clicked accidentally instead, and then I have to derail my chain of thought as I try to remember how to unblock a site. I wish it popped up somewhere else, or wasn't clickable right after appearing. I use it to block Quora, which frequently shows up as the first result, but 99% of the time has only wrong answers. Also, spammy Wikipedia mirrors get blocked.
This works well, except for the fact that the block link pops up right when I'm about to click on a link, and gets clicked accidentally instead, and then I have to derail my chain of thought as I try to remember how to unblock a site. I wish it popped up somewhere else, or wasn't clickable right after appearing. I use it to block Quora, which frequently shows up as the first result, but 99% of the time has only wrong answers. Also, spammy Wikipedia mirrors get blocked.