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).
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”.
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.
Pretty good news tbh. That means that the power demand is driven by users, and we can influence it a little bit, and not just by repeatedly training new models over and over because somebody left a new comment somewhere. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKQJXJOVGE4
