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Fucking SHEIN

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Spudthespanner · 13/05/2025 21:27

Every shopping result when I search for something on Google is bloody SHEIN. I’ve never shopped there in my puff!

“light summer shirts”

SHEIN SHEIN SHEIN SHEIN SHEIN plus a few other obviously bullshit Chinese companies just to spice things up a bit.

Fuck sake.

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Klozza · 13/05/2025 22:02

EveryOtherNameTaken · 13/05/2025 21:29

I get Temu too. Gets right on my pip.

Ugh yes, every single time I look for something online 90% of the results are bloody Temu. I’ve tried blocking the site etc but the adverts and search results still come up in Google for it 🙃

Bailiwitch · 13/05/2025 22:01

It would never occur to me to google ‘light summer shirt’. Google isn’t (yet) a stylist. If I want a particular item I browse a few of the most likely of the hundred odd sites saved on my screen. I’m absolutely not open to being shown random crap.

Goatblu · 13/05/2025 22:00

The -shein seems to work by not bringing up the website but every sponsored item at the top of the page with a photo is that cheap tat.

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Spudthespanner · 13/05/2025 21:57

BoarBrush · 13/05/2025 21:51

Click the 3 dots above the results adverts, then click on the seller you don't like and click block. Easy.

I don’t see any option to block. Only “report”

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CatamaranViper · 13/05/2025 21:56

BoarBrush · 13/05/2025 21:51

Click the 3 dots above the results adverts, then click on the seller you don't like and click block. Easy.

Doesn't work. I've tried repeatedly

SussexLass87 · 13/05/2025 21:54

KellySeveride · 13/05/2025 21:32

I bought 8 dresses for work a few weeks ago. Cost £60. 7 of them are excellent. 1 is a bit meh but it was £3 something

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Chidl slave labour is great right!

BoarBrush · 13/05/2025 21:51

Click the 3 dots above the results adverts, then click on the seller you don't like and click block. Easy.

HouseFullOfChaos · 13/05/2025 21:51

DenmarkStreet · 13/05/2025 21:43

https://www.greenpeace.org/international/press-release/56979/taking-the-shine-off-shein-hazardous-chemicals-in-shein-products-break-eu-regulations-new-report-finds/

WTF, this should have been bigger news. How can they still be in business after this report?! I've never bought off them (or Temu) and after reading that I'm very glad I haven't.

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Spudthespanner · 13/05/2025 21:44

CatamaranViper · 13/05/2025 21:42

I was just whinging about this the other day!
I'm desperate for some coolish dresses to wear to work and it's all I got.
I know the basically dominated Google Ads because they have the cash to spend on marketing but it's too much. I always get temu on my tiktok and social media too. I've never bought from there before!

Shouldn’t bloody be allowed

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CatamaranViper · 13/05/2025 21:42

I was just whinging about this the other day!
I'm desperate for some coolish dresses to wear to work and it's all I got.
I know the basically dominated Google Ads because they have the cash to spend on marketing but it's too much. I always get temu on my tiktok and social media too. I've never bought from there before!

FumingTRex · 13/05/2025 21:40

Look - why are they selling me fishing bait?

Fucking SHEIN
SoScarletItWas · 13/05/2025 21:39

Game0fCrones · 13/05/2025 21:33

Yes, I get the same.

Despite being in my fifties and never having ordered from Shein, Temu, BooHoo or Nasty Gal in my life, when I search for 'white top' this is all i get.

Why?

I thought all ads were meant to be profiled? I thought every site was tracking my browsing habits and selling my profile to companies so that they could target me effectively, not serve up black rubber shorts and lycra hotpants!

Why? Because they pay for their crap to appear high up in searches. It feels impossible to escape!

LilDeVille · 13/05/2025 21:38

KellySeveride · 13/05/2025 21:32

I bought 8 dresses for work a few weeks ago. Cost £60. 7 of them are excellent. 1 is a bit meh but it was £3 something

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That’s not a good thing.

BonfireToffee · 13/05/2025 21:37

KellySeveride · 13/05/2025 21:32

I bought 8 dresses for work a few weeks ago. Cost £60. 7 of them are excellent. 1 is a bit meh but it was £3 something

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You realise that’s only possible because they use slave labour? Someone has had to pay for your glut of cheapo dresses.

SoScarletItWas · 13/05/2025 21:37

If you search with the exclude ‘minus’ sign ( - ) it used to work. So to exclude Shein and Temu results, you would add -shein -temu after your search term.

But Google has acknowledged that using the exclusion doesn’t work on shopping sites 😖. They are working to fix it (and have been FOR MONTHS according to some posts on their forums) so annoyingly we’re stuck with the dodgy exploitative crap.

Maybe try using the exclusion on a different browser?

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Spudthespanner · 13/05/2025 21:36

NeverDropYourMooncup · 13/05/2025 21:31

Type <blue lace top -SHEIN> and that'll exclude them from the results.

You can calm down now. Have a cuppa.

Thank you! Drives me mental because the stuff often looks nice so I’m constantly “oooh” and then bam! fucking SHEIN again.

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FumingTRex · 13/05/2025 21:35

Ive never heard of Shein until today when I searched for harem trousers. I clicked the link on Google and the website was like some kind of AI gone wrong - alongside harem trousers it was showing me fishing bait 😳

Game0fCrones · 13/05/2025 21:33

Yes, I get the same.

Despite being in my fifties and never having ordered from Shein, Temu, BooHoo or Nasty Gal in my life, when I search for 'white top' this is all i get.

Why?

I thought all ads were meant to be profiled? I thought every site was tracking my browsing habits and selling my profile to companies so that they could target me effectively, not serve up black rubber shorts and lycra hotpants!

Goatblu · 13/05/2025 21:33

I get this too and it really irritates me. So it's possible to block Shein from searches??! Brilliant news if it works.

WonderingWanda · 13/05/2025 21:33

Agreed. I bought once before they were very popular, it took months to arrive and was a load of cheap badly fitting tat....realised from the postage and sizing they were Chinese and poor quality and vowed never to use them again.

KellySeveride · 13/05/2025 21:32

purpleme12 · 13/05/2025 21:29

I have never bought from them before either

But sometimes I wonder i get tempted and wonder if I should take the risk...

I bought 8 dresses for work a few weeks ago. Cost £60. 7 of them are excellent. 1 is a bit meh but it was £3 something

NeverDropYourMooncup · 13/05/2025 21:31

Type <blue lace top -SHEIN> and that'll exclude them from the results.

You can calm down now. Have a cuppa.

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Spudthespanner · 13/05/2025 21:30

Itseatingmeup · 13/05/2025 21:28

Yep. Hate it too. Why can't you block it? Would never buy from them.

Didn’t know I could!

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purpleme12 · 13/05/2025 21:29

I have never bought from them before either

But sometimes I wonder i get tempted and wonder if I should take the risk...