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How To Filter Out TikTok And Pinterest From Google Search Results

Create custom Google search engine to filter out annoying websites like TikTok and Pinterest by default. Add new search engine with URL: https://www.google.com/search?q=-tiktok+-pinterest+%s and make it default in Chrome or Kiwi browser settings.

Motivation

I dislike annoying websites like pinterest or tiktok. I don't want to create an account just to see some normal pictures or some short videos of baseball. I want those to disappear from my google search result, so I always search like "baseball -tiktok", but I don't want to write "-tiktok" every time I google search, so I checked how to make it default. 
After writing this article, I realized that with this approach, it would also filter out news articles that have 'TikTok' in the title. So, instead of just 'TikTok,' it might be better to specify the URL, like using -inurl:tiktok....