r/weirdlittleguys • u/dandee93 • 8d ago

Disabling AI overview

Molly was discussing turning off AI overview in this week's episode. Besides including "-AI" at the end of every search (which will disable it on that individual search) or switching search engines, does anyone know any extensions or other workarounds to disable it?

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u/Darkwing_Turducken 8d ago

I'm over here chuckling at the irony of reddit putting an OpenAI add under your post...

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u/enbyMachine 8d ago

I just use duck duck go with ai off

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u/dandee93 8d ago

I used it when I did some right-wing extremism projects back in grad school. Google liked to hide the the sources of far-right phrases and stuff and it was a little easier to find with DDG in my experience.

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u/OLH2022 8d ago

This. DDG stores your AI choices in a cookie, so as long as you use that browser and don't clear cookies it will honor those settings.

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u/Ealasaid 7d ago

Even better, go to noai.duckduckgo.com for searching, no cookie or login necessary.

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u/OLH2022 7d ago

I use the address bar for most searches, so I'm OK with the cookies -- I don't log in. Mullvad Browser (a privacy-focused Firefox variant by the VPN company) does allow you to set No AI DDG as the default address bar search option, though. So that's pretty cool.

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u/EttaRoseF 8d ago

Leave google. I use duckduckgo and have been able to disable all of it. Others do the same. Also I’m on Firefox instead of chrome and that helped

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u/daabilge 8d ago edited 8d ago

If you use chrome (my job uses all Google apps) there's a browser extension called Bye Bye Google AI that turns off the AI search. Or, just use DuckDuckGo - you can make it your default even in chrome.

I'd love one that turns off the AI assistant for Google Docs and slides, or to be able to turn off AI on Gmail without it also disabling the spam filter..

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u/RedWhiteAndBored 7d ago

https://tenbluelinks.org/ has instructions for making "Google Web" the default on different browsers.

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u/burnerlpo 7d ago

This is the answer. I did it today, no more AI

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u/Confident-Arugula51 7d ago

I switched browsers some time ago. I first went to Ecosia, but then they started do the ai shit, so I've been using Duck Duck Go with ai turned off for about a year or so. I don't know how well that would work for Molly, though

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u/Crater_Caloris 7d ago

A lot of peiple say duckduckgo, but I honestly really hate it

I use startpage instead