• Sailor Sega Saturn@awful.systems
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    5 days ago

    I had been using a CSS rule to hide the AI overviews on Google.

    Because of this news I just installed a Firefox extension to force Google search results to use the “web” tab (which presumably skips generating them entirely).

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      4 days ago

      By the way, is there a DuckDuckGo bang for Google “udm=14” (“web” tab) yet? I have been looking for something like this for awhile, but no success so far. It’s very frustrating to receive these AI generated answers even when using “!g”.

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        4 days ago

        The extension I ended up using for Firefox was Straight to the Web. Auditing the source code I saw that it looked for certain Google URL patterns being navigated to and re-wrote them.

        I just tested with DuckDuckGo’s “!g” feature and it seemed to work, but I don’t use DDG so I don’t know if there’s anything I’m missing.