You have no choice
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cross-posted from: https://ani.social/post/34822755
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I don't get Firefox at work, and the other day Chrome popped open a new tab on it's own telling me to try out Gemini. I asked Gemini why this new tab had opened pushing Gemini on me when I didn't ask it to, and it told me the most likely reason was that my computer is infected with a virus.
Not wrong I guess?
For anyone still using Google: is there actually some easter egg for when you try to do that or something?
There was one Huge AI blocklistfilter too, I use that with ublock origin. Helps when other search engines don't cut it ¯\(ツ)/¯
Or you could just... you know... not use Google.
https://tenbluelinks.org/ has a good setup to make a non AI version of Google your browser's default search
Of course that's assuming you specifically want to such with Google
I like: https://noai.duckduckgo.com/
And that can be set as your browser's custom default search provider
https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%25s
Firefox has tons of extensions to remove/hide/block AI overview in Google searches. Just search "Google AI" on their extensions page and you'll get nearly a dozen extensions to choose from.
In the past, I'd sometimes use Google for image reverse search, when the other engines didn't turn up anything. Since they integrated that AI overview, that's basically broken, as it only shows relevant results for maybe 10% of my queries.
I don't know how they managed to break that, like I'm not on the AI overview tab. I just want the functionality they supported for the past 10+ years.
They had to make it worse so that the number of queries would go up. When you find what you were looking for on the first try, it doesn't make number go up!
Literally this is what happened and why it's so bad now.
Keep asking it questions until it doesn't want to answer you anymore because you cost so much money /s
Just keep asking "why" like a 4 year old. See how deep the rabbit hole goes
When making your search, type "-ai" at the end. For example:
How tall is the Eiffel tower -ai
You're welcome.
This doesn't work about 80% of the time.
But 20% of the time, it works every time!
ShitGPT, how much is every time of 20% ?
I add a query parameter to go to web search, rather than the default search, so no slop here
The chatbot has history. So it's just trying to remove the Nvidia rtx5090 from her throat.

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