19 May 2024
remove AI from Google Search on Firefox
Update 25 Jun 2024: If you found this page looking for how to turn off the recently announced built-in AI feature in Firefox then as far as I know you don’t have to do anything. It’s only in the Nightly releases and for now it’s opt in. I’ll update this page with a link to instructions if that changes. In the meantime, why not read on and fix Google Search?
Update: There is an easier way to do this now.
Install the udm14 extension.
If you want to make this the default, go to Settings → Search and choose
udm14
as your default search engine.
All done. You may wish to enjoy a cool beverage without HFCS to celebrate.
Next steps: Some other browser extensions and
settings to get Google Search closer to how the old Google
worked: fix Google
Search
Original version of this post:
This seems to work to remove “AI” stuff from the top of Google search results on Firefox. (Tested on desktop Firefox for Linux.)
Go to the hamburger menu → Settings → Search and remove “Google Search.”
Do a regular Google search for a word.
Bookmark the search result page.
Go to the hamburger menu → Bookmarks → Manage Bookmarks.
(optional) Make a new folder for search and put the new bookmark in it.
Edit the bookmark to include
udm=14
as a URL parameter, like this:https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14
Add a keyword or keywords (I use
@gg
).
Bonus links
The
Ukraine war is driving rapid innovation in drone technology Of
course, there are new legal and moral questions that arise from giving
drones the power to kill. But the CEO of this company points out there
is a cost to not developing the technology. And in any case, this push
to innovate—and defeat the invading enemy—has pushed off those questions
for now.
(imho this is going to be the number one immediate issue
for AI in Europe. The only credible alternative to returning to
large-scale conscription in European countries that have phased it out
is for some European alliance to reach global leadership in autonomous
military AI. Which explains why they’re putting
civilian AI and surveillance businesses on a tight leash—to free up
qualified developers for defense jobs.)
How
Google harms search advertisers in 20 slides They’re not raising
prices,
they’re coming up with better prices or more fair prices,
where those new prices are higher than the previous ones.
lol
React,
Electron, and LLMs have a common purpose: the labour arbitrage theory of
dev tool popularity Why do some software frameworks and libraries
grow in adoption while others don’t?…It’s not about output or
productivity.
Meta’s
‘set it and forget it’ AI ad tools are misfiring and blowing through
cash Small businesses have seen their ad dollars get wiped out
and wasted as a result, and some have said the bouts of overspending are
driving them from Meta’s platforms.
(considering where Meta ad money
goes— child
safety and mental health concerns are just the latest—this seems
like a good thing. Also Meta
could face further squeeze on surveillance ads model in EU)
Microsoft
Deleted Its LLM Because It Didn’t Get a Safety Test, But Now It’s
Everywhere 404 Media has not tested the model and we don’t know
if it is easily producing harmful or “toxic” answers, or if Microsoft
only took it down because it didn’t check either way. Since the model is
open source, it is also possible other people could have downloaded it
and create
(underground AI is less capable but more predictable
than big company AI APIs. From the point of view of an API caller, the
AI you were using gets randomly nerfed because the provider is acting on
a moderation issue you weren’t aware of.)uncensored
versions of the model that would produce
controversial answers anyway, as we’ve reported people have done
previously.