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It works. In Vivaldi just add the parameter at the end of the search URL in the search settings configuration.
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"For good."
Until Google finds a workaround.
They don't need to "find" a workaround. They put this there. This isn't some sorta "hack", it's literally a feature Google built into the page. This feature will exist for exactly as long as Google wants it to.
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This won't last long. It's too public now. Google will find a way to kill it and force their AI on you as much as possible.
Google's too smart for that. They know there's a big backlash against AI in the tech savvy crowd and that it's bleeding users to competitors. So they offer this escape valve that they know the techies will easily find and use, but which 99% of the population will never even look for. This way they can still push AI on almost everyone while at the same time retain as many disgruntled techies as they can.
Google kills its golden goose search engine and is thought here up be too smart to disable a workaround... I'm doubtful.
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You're giving them a lot more credit than is probably warranted. They've killed off so many popular things and workarounds that really cost them nothing to leave available for the tech savvy they've very much shut down to force people to use the systems they want to push.
googie hasn't been tech savvy friendly for a while now
I can think of a couple examples, like leaving the boot loader unlocked on their pixel phones. You might be right though.
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what does that parameter mean though?
Ultra dumb mode. Others only go up to 10, but googles goes all the way to 14.
Truthfully, the way I cut out most of the noise everywhere is to search using duckduckgo lite on Librewolf/Mull browsers. That with ublock origin (and block cookie banners), noscript, and redirection extensions to nojs alternatives like libreddit, scribe, invidious, along with putting various bypass paywall scripts into ublock's filter list. It all just adds up to an overall better experience with fast, to the point results.
Show google who’s boss by still using the product.
I can’t help but be curious, does udm=13 or udm=15 do anything?
Don't try it! You'll regret it.
You can still have a laugh with the new page, like that extreme confidence highlighting the wrong answers.
Disinfotainment at its best.
It's easier to just use duckduckgo
I just wish I could search a term of more than 2 words and get relevant results rather than pages that contain at least one of the words in high volumes. That's the only reason I ever use google, for years now. Encasing the words in quotes doesn't seem to function at all on DDG, either.
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"kill ai search for good"
Yeah, ok. It's a feature and Google will kill it eventually.
I never get these things where people are like "ah ha, we outsmarted the company by using an undocumented* feature they provide!" But like, they control the feature and they know it exists, you're not getting away with something.
* or sometimes even documented
I tricked target into lowering prices by using this coupon they had on their website! Mwhahaha.
Google will just use this as a way to flag their tech savvy and anti-ai users. It's just another data point.
A small proxy site was written to do this for you: https://udm14.com/
Can also just add a custom search engine to Firefox with the search URL string:
https://www.google.com/search?udm=14&q=%s
No need to go through a completely separate site.
And this way you'll be sure the intermediate site isn't also scraping your data.
That site is open source, in GitHub. Not much to it.
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wait, is the AI thing automatically enabled in the US?
@Thekingoflorda @gedaliyah seems to be, yeah
Hmm, not for me for some reason.
Edit: looks like it depends on the search.
I dunno, I don't use Google almost ever.
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It's a shame that they'll certainly prioritize nerfing this over fixing actual problems
This is the best summary I could come up with:
If you're tired of Google's AI Overview extracting all value from the web while also telling people to eat glue or run with scissors, you can turn it off—sort of.
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.
Most of these only mean something to Google's internal tracking system, but that "&udm=14" line is the one that will put you in a web search.
If you don't want it to be the default, shortcut/alias will let you selectively launch this search from the address bar by starting your query with the shortcut text.
Omitting "gw" will still launch Google's AI idiot box, which will probably tell you that rocks are delicious.
So, while this Band-Aid solution is interesting, things are getting so bad that the real recommendation is probably to switch to something other than Google at this point.
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