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The power of URL parameters lets you unofficially turn off Google's AI Overview.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Or you could...not use Google. Cut the AI, but everything else about it is still shit.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

One way to edit the search URL is a proxy site like udm14.com, which is probably the biggest site out there popularizing this technique.

When people are making their own entire web sites to make it possible for third parties to adapt around UX issues of your web site (not just a handful, but enough people that there's one of those sites that's identifiable as "the biggest"), you have lost the plot.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago

Pretty bold to say that you can eliminate ads and AI results, “for good”. It only happens because Google lets it for now.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

For now at least

use duckduckgo guys

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ooh I got bad news for ya bud

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Publicizing it is so stupid.

Google can easily change that parameter on their end and not affect their own site. They could randomize it every few minutes and not miss a best.