Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good
Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good
The power of URL parameters lets you unofficially turn off Google's AI Overview.
Until Google realizes normal.people would rather use this than take part in their AI search, and block usage of it outside of businesses.
"Normal people", as in 99% of people, will not bother editing the URL... most of them don't even know what a URL is. They'll just keep using whatever search window they get in their "internet" (browser).
However, Google would rather scrapers and people with ad blockers not make them waste money on AI when they can't recoup them.
Degoogle instead.
De Google zey do nothing.
I love seeing this same article rewritten and reposted all over Lemmy, such great engaging content /s
First time I saw it.
There are browser userscripts out there now that do this automatically.
What is this reporting? The tone sounds like a personal Twitter post.
which Google recently launched as a way to search the web without Google's alpha-quality AI junk. It's actually pretty nice, showing only the traditional 10 blue links, giving you a clean (well, other than the ads), uncluttered results page that looks like it's from 2011.