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
arstechnica.com
Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good
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Degoogle instead.
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I love seeing this same article rewritten and reposted all over Lemmy, such great engaging content /s
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First time I saw it.
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There are browser userscripts out there now that do this automatically.
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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.
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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.
Honestly. People moved to Google back in the day. If a search engine gets enough traction for being superior, the adoption will start. Slowly first, but it worked before. I see no reason why it wouldn't happen again.
That's what's really confusing me: why add an expensive feature, that obviously doesn't work and even in the best case adds only minor improvements?
I mean, it's not another option like with Bing. It's the default. Every stupid little search will take up AI resources. For what? Market cap?
Yeah, the headline sort of reads like Ars is daring Google to remove the flag.
Which they most likely will, just won't say anything.