It's imperceptible to me. The number of search terms is pretty low. My regex isn't as sophisticated as it could be because the script started as a simple terms list using indexof, so it could be improved a little bit as more terms are added.
Mainly I filter by entire sites, which helps a lot. I won't miss many technical articles by filtering nytimes, and if I do, I can live with that.
I'll take PRs or suggestions, this was a ten minute project to scratch an itch.
I wrote a greasemonkey userscript for Firefox to reduce the number of non-technical articles. It works alright, I never meant it to be perfect, just get rid of the stuff that never is fun for me to read or is about topics that come up too often.
Mainly I filter by entire sites, which helps a lot. I won't miss many technical articles by filtering nytimes, and if I do, I can live with that.
I'll take PRs or suggestions, this was a ten minute project to scratch an itch.