Is there any way I can hide AI on Google? I'm using Vivaldi (which is a Chromium browser).
this post was submitted on 21 Mar 2026
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You can hide the AI preview using udm14.com or adding &udm=14 query param to your google queries (can be done automatically by adding browser search engine with this param)
You can use the web page, aka udm14. You can also set this in your browser so that typing in the search/address bar directly opens this.
I have no idea if this particular development affects these results, but so far it's been nice. No AI summary, no "similar" advertisement, no "questions about…". Just plain results. Like, I don't know, that old google website.
No.
The only thing you can do is make your search more ambiguous and the results worse. Google shows the AI summary only if it is confident enough.
Before long they will use it to just create their own sites. Their own articles. Why replace just the headline. A whole internet of just google ai generated bs. Just search something on Google and everything from there on is ai generated. All results. All pictures. The maps. Everything. Nothing will be real.
Absolute pricks. "Don't do evil" they said.
AI has biases. News are titled to be biased too. This is grounds for fake news.
Don't, do evil!
I'd trust an LLM to summarize an article and give it an honest title over a piece of shit journalist that wrote it.
~~Don't~~ do evil
Hasn't that been Google's guiding principle for quite some time already?
"Don't be evil" hasn't been an official guiding principle for over a decade, no.
Sloplines.
Breaking Hallucinations!
Wow. Thats horrible. Google has been a shitty search engine for a while now, but this is even worse.
I quit using them as my main search probably 5 years ago. But I get that most people still use it and most people will be misled.
Awful.
What engines would you advise to someone who is thinking about ditching google?
Not sure are they any better, but I use Ecosia and Qwant. Some prefer also DuckDuckGo.
Apparently this has been going on for a while but The Verge started sounding the alarm 3 months ago. They know most people won't read more than a couple sentences past a headline if they even open the article at all. Confirmation bias is about to go wild
noai.duckduckgo.com
It offers also news search as well as image and video search. Filtering out AI images. Guaranteed AI summary free.
I may switch to them as my primary provider. They seem to source results from Bing, and with the noai prefix hopefully won't keep turning on AI summary like Ecosia does 😑
Duckduckgo does not only source from Bing.They use sources from everyone but Google and they have their own web crawlers and an index of their own. Their results feel considerably more relevant to me than whatever Bing is doing. '
Have a look here for more infos: https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/news-rankings
In some cases I still feel like Google has an edge but those cases become less frequent.
You guys are still using Google?
I'm as surprised as you are.
I tried looking for an instruction PDF for some stage lights the other day. No amount of "google-fu" could find the right thing. Links labeled as one model showed stuff for other models when clicked, and the god awful summary that it shoves in your face was just full of contradictions of itself. Google is warm trash water at this point.
Try startpage. It's bliiissssss
It is owned by the ad company System1 though.
I find the same thing with vehicle years, I look for say a fuse box layout for a 1985 c20 truck and I will get nothing but genaric trash or stuff for 2021 model years. I used to be able to use "year" but even that has stopped working. Like how do you fuck model and year up?
I HAVE HAD ENOUGH!!!!!
Goddamn fuckers just won’t stop!!!
so many better Google alternatives out there:
- https://noai.duckduckgo.com/
- https://ecosia.org/
- https://searx.space/ (pick any of the 50+ instances)
- https://www.qwant.com/
- https://www.startpage.com/
I still use Google Scholar, but I have recently seen that it is also being enshitified. What's the next best option?
lens.org
https://marginalia-search.com/
Open source and has its own index
Their old version with the 'random' option is the best way to find random, small, niche sites.
https://old-search.marginalia.nu/search?query=browse%3Arandom
Ecosia seems to be pushing the aI stuff hard as well, but at least you have to press the obnoxious AI buttons to get it. Still, it refuses to make those buttons optional. Duckduckgo let's you have clean experience without rubbing AI buttons or AI summaries in your face and so does qwant.
Still, it refuses to make those buttons optional.
Not only that, back before I left Ecosia a few months ago, it kept forgetting that I turned off AI summaries. Every week or so it would turn back on... I'll try DuckDuckGo's noai prefix this time, that hopefully won't have this issue. (I really like Ecosia's mission, but come on...)
Duckduckgo should not have any such issues. If you need that prefix you should not even need any cookies. Going there has all those no AI settings on by default. Regarding Ecosia, could it be that you deleted some related cookies accidentialy? Or did they really push in a very sleazy way for AI?
I'm sure the trees appreciate the AI sicofancy. /s
Protip, you can use your hostsfile or your router to block google so you don't get tempted. If you may have to bypass, you can use some blocking extensions to allow an override after a nag screen chastising yourself for being weak willed. I rarely reach for the goog nowadays because I have a whole workflow I go through before giving in.
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What the fuck are we supposed to do when the services we use are monopolies which actively seeks to destroy its competition as well as enshittify itself to a point its unusable :|
Time to start self hosting.
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