“Just give me the f***ing links!”—Cursing disables Google’s AI overviews

https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/01/just-give-me-the-fing-links-cursing-disables-googles-ai-overviews/

The latest trick to stop those annoying AI answers is also the most cathartic.

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YoiksAndAway@lemmy.zip · 19 pts · 1y

More recently, some Google users have noticed that appending the string "-ai" to a search (without quotes) seems to also turn off AI Overviews in the results.

Not as much fun, but good to know.

valkyre09@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y

There’s a bit of text you can add to the google search to have it exclude Gemini.

This site does it for you:

https://udm14.com/

I did a search in this, then copied the url result into my browser settings replacing my search word with %s. I haven’t seen the AI results since

LiveLM@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 1y

Brb, yelling obscenities at my work computer to see if Copilot will uninstall itself

jroid8@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Is ublock origin blocking Google's AI? Because I often use google along side searxng and I swear to god I haven't seen it once (and hope to not see it)

Riffz7@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

I think I added the Google summary section to a ublock rule years ago and I think Google may have reused that or I just added the first ai response section I saw to a new rule awhile ago because I also didn't see them frequently/at all

Steve@startrek.website · 3 pts · 1y

Not for me it isnt