Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good

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• Varyag@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Until Google realizes normal.people would rather use this than take part in their AI search, and block usage of it outside of businesses.

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  • jarfil@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “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.

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    • DosDude@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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.

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    • agressivelyPassive@feddit.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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?

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  • Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, the headline sort of reads like Ars is daring Google to remove the flag.

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    • snownyte@kbin.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Which they most likely will, just won't say anything.

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• guyrocket@kbin.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Degoogle instead.

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• Daxtron2@startrek.website ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I love seeing this same article rewritten and reposted all over Lemmy, such great engaging content

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  • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    First time I saw it.

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• fubarx@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There are browser userscripts out there now that do this automatically.

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• Kissaki@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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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