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using #firefox or a derivative? Setting browser.ml.chat.enabled=false turns off the brand-new AI features.
You're welcome.
(RIP my mentions, muting this)
@mwl and you can do something similar for Google? Because it’s incredibly irritating to keep getting incorrect or irrelevant results!
@lucyweirphd You can add &udm=14 to your google search URL (or use https://udm14.com/)
@pcyx thanks but why that particular order of letters and numbers?
@lucyweirphd Only the google developers know there answer to that! It is the code to set the search to web-only results, rather than the default which is a blend of AI, suggestions, shopping, images, videos, etc.
If you do a Google search and then click the "Web" filter at the top, you'll see it's adding udm=14 to the URL. (And if you do an image search it uses udm=2, and so on, different codes for the other filters)
Or swear. At least currently if there's a swear word in your search (it doesn't need to make sense) no AI pops up.
@deirdrebeth how very prudish this California boys were …
@lucyweirphd @mwl https://tenbluelinks.org/ will help you change your browser search engine to a Google URL that defaults to the "Web" tab, which doesn't include AI results.
But the Web tab doesn't do things like automatically turn UPS/USPS/FedEx tracking numbers into links, or convert temperatures, etc, so it's great, but do be aware some convenience functions no longer works.
Wonder if there's a uBlock Origin rule...
@poundquerydotinfo thanks. I understood about half.
@lucyweirphd @mwl
The magic of removing AI results consists of adding "&udm=14" to the google search query address. Explanation here: https://tedium.co/2024/05/17/google-web-search-make-default/
There is https://udm14.org/, serving as a startpage that adds that parameter.
Same effect is achievable via browser extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/udm14/
@lucyweirphd yeah, you can switch to another search engine