Yeah you can’t. So you are going to have to use something else. I found that duck duck go allows you to turn AI off.
I use it now. On Firefox.
I realize it’s a shit post. I’m just commenting a fyi for people who might want an answer.
For your private browsing tabs: https://noai.duckduckgo.com/
I use it now. On Firefox.
This is how it’s done.
I haven’t googled anything in years.
I’m trying to not use Google or YouTube starting this month, at least for this month. (i.e. September 2026)
(So far so good. :)
So what verb do we start using then? Duckling? Ask Jeeving? Yandexing?
Honestly just “searched” is probably fine.
Yeah. In this day and age noone will think you went to a library to look it up.
Googling. That’s how you invalidate a trademark.
Thanks. I might just Hoover up your ideas and Xerox them for my Ziploc of tricks.
*I’m not American and would never use any of those words.
Search
I’m actively still using “google” to turn it into a common verb and make Alphabet lose the rights to the word.
DuckDuckGo now has their own browser that blows FF out of the water.
Edit: Chromium, don’t bother.
If its chromium then don’t bother, let’s not forget how Google tried to take over the Internet through chromium browsers
Damn :( I just looked and it is. Back to FF!
I thought the DDG browser was Firefox with some branding and plugins?
I’ve learned that if I absolutely have to use Google for something (which is very rare), appending a curse word with the minus symbol (i.e. “-fuck” or “-shit”) completely bypasses the ai mode since its designed to not engage with curse words, and the minus tells the search engine portion to disregard this word in the search results.
It’s not perfect, but it makes me feel a little better, y’know?
Useful except when the solution to some problem is to be found in the responses of an old forum post which reads something like, “how do I fix this fucking shit?”
Is there a link to this page, so we can all use the “I have the same question” button?
Doesn’t matter. The thread is just locked and ignored forever by Google. There are thousands of such issues and complaints across all Google products, and that’s how they deal with it.
Not only has AI made traditional Googling more difficult, but it’s also just clogging up the search results no matter what search engine you choose…
Also, I miss Pinterest.
Was with you til the end there. I use the personal blocklist extension, and I got it specifically for pinterest. It’s grown to include others, but Pinterest was the beginning.
