Yeah you can’t. So you are going to have to use something else. I found that duck duck go allows you to turn AI off.
I use it now. On Firefox.
I realize it’s a shit post. I’m just commenting a fyi for people who might want an answer.
For your private browsing tabs: https://noai.duckduckgo.com/
DuckDuckGo now has their own browser that blows FF out of the water.
Edit: Chromium, don’t bother.
If its chromium then don’t bother, let’s not forget how Google tried to take over the Internet through chromium browsers
Damn :( I just looked and it is. Back to FF!
I thought the DDG browser was Firefox with some branding and plugins?
I’ve learned that if I absolutely have to use Google for something (which is very rare), appending a curse word with the minus symbol (i.e. “-fuck” or “-shit”) completely bypasses the ai mode since its designed to not engage with curse words, and the minus tells the search engine portion to disregard this word in the search results.
It’s not perfect, but it makes me feel a little better, y’know?
Useful except when the solution to some problem is to be found in the responses of an old forum post which reads something like, “how do I fix this fucking shit?”
Apparently it doesn’t I cuss all I want it responds.
Not only has AI made traditional Googling more difficult, but it’s also just clogging up the search results no matter what search engine you choose…
Also, I miss Pinterest.
Was with you til the end there. I use the personal blocklist extension, and I got it specifically for pinterest. It’s grown to include others, but Pinterest was the beginning.
The real question is why use Google for 99% of searches? There are very few searches where Google is “necessary,”(debatable still).
For me so far, convenience on mobile when looking up information on physical places and business. I get the phone number, address, and hours of operation without clicking a link.
As I’m transitioning to using Ecosia, that’s what I find myself going back to Google search for most frequently. I tried switching to clicking links on Ecosia to find a phone number to call, and quickly came to the conclusion the websites are enshittified also, or at least ridiculous to navigate and find useful information. On at least one occasion already Google has had the phone number listed at the top of Search for an organization that just didn’t have a phone number provided from themselves anywhere online. (Okay, maybe they had it on their Facebook page, but I’m trying to improve my user experience not soil it).
Is there a link to this page, so we can all use the “I have the same question” button?
Doesn’t matter. The thread is just locked and ignored forever by Google. There are thousands of such issues and complaints across all Google products, and that’s how they deal with it.
Switch search engine
just put &udm=14 at the end of the url pr make your default search engine :
Non-Issue
The only other way that I personally know on how to get around the google AI is when you search something at the end of the search type (-AI) that seems to work well.
