How to disable Safari’s Frequently Visited blacklist on macOS

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I'm pretty sure Safari on macOS has some sort of blacklisting mechanism that's preventing some of the my frequently visited websites from appearing in that list. Is there a way to disable that feature?

I have Safari 13.0.4 on macOS Catalina but I think the feature (issue) has been present perhaps for years.

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I don't know whether there is a blacklisting mechanism.

I think that if you ever delete a site from the frequently visited window, then it'll never appear again: Check BannedURLStrings in ~/Library/Safari/TopSites.plist with

/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c print ~/Library/Safari/TopSites.plist

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