Content Filtering

By the end of this page, you'll know how to hide content you don't want to see: paywalled articles, specific domains, or individual posts.

Paywalled Content

Scour identifies articles behind paywalls and marks them with a badge. Detection relies on structured data and page patterns, so it's not perfect.

You can hide paywalled content in your feed by enabling this option:

If you have subscriptions to sites with paywalls, you can add them to your allowlist in your Settings so their content appears in your feed.

Blocking & Reporting

Every post has a menu with options to Block Domain (never see content from that site again) and Report Post (flag it for review).

Domain blocking is exact: blocking example.com won't block blog.example.com. You can manage your blocked domains in Settings.

Automatic Filtering

Scour applies several filters before it shows content to you:

• Domain blocklist — Scour blocks 906393 domains known for spam, fake news, and content farms.
• Language filtering — Content in languages you don't read is filtered out. Update your preferences in Settings.
• Listicle detection - Scour downranks articles with titles like "Top 10..." or "5 tips for...".
• Quality classification — A machine learning model filters out low-quality content. (It's not perfect; I'm working on it.)

For more on how Scour decides what to show you, see How Ranking Works.

Coming Soon: Topic Exclusion

You can filter by source (blocking domains) but not yet by topic. If you want to exclude certain topics (say, AI art but not AI generally), vote on topic exclusion to help prioritize this feature.