diff --git a/config-sample.yml b/config-sample.yml
index 4fd18a4..6a9981d 100644
--- a/config-sample.yml
+++ b/config-sample.yml
@@ -6,4 +6,5 @@ mastodon:
 languages:
   - en
   - es
-default_language: en
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+default_language: en
+exclude_tags: []
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diff --git a/kuow_fetcher.py b/kuow_fetcher.py
index 2a67edd..9413d0b 100644
--- a/kuow_fetcher.py
+++ b/kuow_fetcher.py
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ def detect_article_language(article_description: str) -> str:
     except AttributeError:
         return default_language.iso_code_639_1.name
 
+
 engine = create_engine("sqlite:///kuow.db")
 Base.metadata.create_all(engine)
 
@@ -130,18 +131,39 @@ with Session(engine) as session:
             except (NameError, TypeError):
                 print("Could not find or load IDs for this post")
 
+            tags: list[str] = []
             try:
-                tags = article_soup.find(
-                    "script", {"class": "dfp_targeting", "data-key": "tags"}
-                )["data-value"].split("|")
+                tags.extend(
+                    article_soup.find(
+                        "script", {"class": "dfp_targeting", "data-key": "tags"}
+                    )["data-value"].split("|")
+                )
             except (NameError, TypeError):
-                print("Could not find or load any tags for this article")
-                tags = []
+                print("Could not find or load any tags from the 'tags' property")
+
+            try:
+                tags.extend(
+                    article_soup.find(
+                        "script", {"class": "dfp_targeting", "data-key": "topics"}
+                    )["data-value"].split("|")
+                )
+            except (NameError, TypeError):
+                print("Could not find or load any tags from the 'tags' property")
+
+            # Remove duplicates
+            tags = list(set(tags))
 
             additional_tag_string = ""
             for tag in tags:
-                # TODO: Do a check for tags in the config file that we don't want to tag posts with
-                additional_tag_string += " #{}".format(tag.title().replace(" ", ""))
+                tag = tag.title().replace(" ", "").replace("&", "And")
+                if tag.casefold() in config["exclude_tags"]:
+                    print(
+                        "Tag {} was found in the article, but won't be included in the post".format(
+                            tag
+                        )
+                    )
+                else:
+                    additional_tag_string += " #{}".format(tag)
 
             try:
                 article_description = (