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The ubiquity, or infestation, of pinterest in any kind of internet search is a well established fact at this point. If you have dared to look for images through any search engine without special syntax or a plugin, chances are that the vast majority of the images are from Pinterest.
few other entities have mastered the art of seo manipulation like pinterest. you could probably write several PhD theses on the ways in which they have turned the entire www, as navigated through search engines, is basically a pinterest board (or whatever inane bullshit nonmenclature they use over there).
the single most frustrating tactic, however, is the endless list of country spacific domain names that they have; .de, .ca, .co.uk, .it etc etc ad infinitum.
In a Medium article published in March 2018 by Christian Miranda (burn in hell) discusses the technical process of implementing this bullshit to improve "geotargeting" and several other nonsense jargon that tech industry shitheels like to blast all over their blogs like beef cattle after taco night.
The problem for those of us trying to avoid the pestillential propagation of pinterest is that "geotargeting" doesn't seem to mean "only listed in queriese from within ", it means that there are multiple different vectors from which pinterest can infect your search results.
simply typing "-site:pinterest.com" is not enough to avoid the coackroaches, because of the multiple country-specific domains. (a wildcard syntax, such as "pinterest.*" would be useful here). Your only recourse is typing up a shitload of urls for exlusion or writing some kind of browser script to bulk exclude the lice nest of pinterest content.
Everyone even remotely involved in helping bring this plague to fruition has contributed to the erosion of the general utility of the www as a source of information and deserves no mercy in the coming shitpost wars of the future.
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