<story><title>Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users</title><url>https://kagi.com/stats</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>karaterobot</author><text>Pinterest was certainly the first site I blocked.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve never understood the hate for w3schools. No, it&amp;#x27;s not MDN, but it&amp;#x27;s not offensively bad either, and it&amp;#x27;s been a helpful reference from time to time. If w3schools comes up first in a search, I trust that it probably has the answer to whatever very simple question I must have asked, unlike something like Pinterest, which will just be spam no matter what.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matsemann</author><text>See &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.w3fools.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.w3fools.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s more a historical thing. Over a decade ago they were always on top, with often wrong&amp;#x2F;misleading&amp;#x2F;bad practice&amp;#x2F;insecure&amp;#x2F;simplified stuff. And lots of people thought of them as some kinde official entity because of their name similarity with W3C &amp;#x2F; w3.org&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s much better now, though. But for lots of old school frontenders the reputation stuck.</text></comment>
<story><title>Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users</title><url>https://kagi.com/stats</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>karaterobot</author><text>Pinterest was certainly the first site I blocked.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve never understood the hate for w3schools. No, it&amp;#x27;s not MDN, but it&amp;#x27;s not offensively bad either, and it&amp;#x27;s been a helpful reference from time to time. If w3schools comes up first in a search, I trust that it probably has the answer to whatever very simple question I must have asked, unlike something like Pinterest, which will just be spam no matter what.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>navanchauhan</author><text>I never knew W3Schools had such a bad reputation. I learned HTML from that site almost a decade ago and found it pretty helpful.&lt;p&gt;I loved their Try it Online!</text></comment>