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authorHannah Isopod <me@bathynomus.xyz>2026-02-15 22:42:27 -0700
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THE BIG ONE
Total website redesign. Multiple new blog posts. Routine updates on several pages. Too much to list, even if I remembered it all. Remind me not to put this git repo on any portfolios.
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Quick one today. I got sick of searching for programming questions and seeing AI-generated scraped-from-stackoverflow click farm trash polluting the results, and I happen to use a personal SearXNG instance that no client-side blacklist extension on the planet is gonna support, so I went looking to see if I could blacklist them in SearXNG for like the eighth time and finally found a way using the hostname replace plugin. So here's that, because I didn't find this feature documented officially anywhere bar an [issue](https://github.com/searxng/searxng/discussions/970) on the Github repo.
-## How to do it
+# How to do it
First, open up your instance's config file. If you installed it directly like I did, that'll probably be `/etc/searxng/settings.yml`. If you used Docker, god help you. Anyway, find the `enabled_plugins:` section and uncomment the entry for `'Hostname replace'`, then uncomment the line `hostname_replace:` just below it. Under there you'll put your blocks: