I love that it just includes all of msn.com.
I guess the author's "boiling hatred to bad tech support articles" leads to some overreach
This doesn't block you from visiting MSN, but it does stop their articles from appearing in search. The reason is that MSN just re-hosts articles from other sites rather than provide anything of value. MSN posts often outrank their original source because Microsoft is pushing it hard on Windows/Bing/Edge.
For example: https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/jodie-foster-heckled-a... is just a re-hosted version https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/jod...
My hope in hiding MSN is to allow the original sources to rise back up to the top.
I'm going to have a look at this. I currently run a script that adds `-site:msn.com` to all of my DDG searches. It's kinda ugly.
My small rebuttal to that is that msn.com occasionally has articles they've sucked in that are paywalled on the original sites.
But I have archive.is for the most part to get around that issue.
msn.com is actually useful from time-to-time as they have syndicated articles which are otherwise stuck behind paywalls on other sites.