You have no choice

2 months ago by FoxtrotDeltaTango to c/programmer_humor

cross-posted from: https://ani.social/post/34822755

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Dave 60 points 2 months ago

I don't get Firefox at work, and the other day Chrome popped open a new tab on it's own telling me to try out Gemini. I asked Gemini why this new tab had opened pushing Gemini on me when I didn't ask it to, and it told me the most likely reason was that my computer is infected with a virus.

Not wrong I guess?

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nogooduser 20 points 2 months ago

Microsoft is as bad. As our IT admin, I have about 300 different ways to launch Copilot.

The most annoying was when they changed it so that going to office.com went to a Copilot chat window instead of allowing me to select the MS Office apps such as SharePoint and OneDrive.

Bloody Notepad has a Copilot button now!

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titanicx 7 points 2 months ago

Are you enjoying the uninstallable and non-corporate configurable installation of OneDrive photos?

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OddDeer 46 points 2 months ago

Or you could just... you know... not use Google.

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teslekova 2 points 2 months ago

Just.

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onlinepersona 1 point 2 months ago

You know.

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flameleaf 14 points 2 months ago

With uBlock Origin

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dry_water 7 points 2 months ago

There was one Huge AI blocklistfilter too, I use that with ublock origin. Helps when other search engines don't cut it ¯\(ツ)/¯

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flameleaf 2 points 2 months ago

If I remember correctly that one blocks every site that has AI. This one just removes AI from pages were it's annoying (like google search).

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MSBBritain 12 points 2 months ago

When making your search, type "-ai" at the end. For example:

How tall is the Eiffel tower -ai

You're welcome.

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FerretyFever0 16 points 2 months ago

This doesn't work about 80% of the time. Edit: Using slurs at the end of your questions works 100% of the time though.

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red_tomato 13 points 2 months ago

But 20% of the time, it works every time!

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schmorpel 5 points 2 months ago

ShitGPT, how much is every time of 20% ?

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x7HlPDq9dSNO6v3A9 12 points 2 months ago

I like: https://noai.duckduckgo.com/

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SatyrSack 7 points 2 months ago

And that can be set as your browser's custom default search provider

https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%25s

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nsh 1 point 2 months ago

There are also html-only and lite versions of ddg

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ExtraMedicated 11 points 2 months ago

I kept accidentally summoning the AI assistant on my mom's tablet so I told it to fuck off. It was like "words can hurt!" So I told it to fuck off again.

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trem 9 points 2 months ago

In the past, I'd sometimes use Google for image reverse search, when the other engines didn't turn up anything. Since they integrated that AI overview, that's basically broken, as it only shows relevant results for maybe 10% of my queries.

I don't know how they managed to break that, like I'm not on the AI overview tab. I just want the functionality they supported for the past 10+ years.

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eatCasserole 5 points 2 months ago

They had to make it worse so that the number of queries would go up. When you find what you were looking for on the first try, it doesn't make number go up!

Literally this is what happened and why it's so bad now.

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aloofPenguin 3 points 2 months ago

they made Google lens ai, and it SUCKS. I tried 2 queries on the same exact image and it returned completely different results...

looking for alternatives now, though doubt there will be many.

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SatyrSack 7 points 2 months ago

For anyone still using Google: is there actually some easter egg for when you try to do that or something?

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netizen 7 points 2 months ago

Just udm14?

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Sir_Premiumhengst 3 points 2 months ago

Oookay just tried this to find a manuals of my microwave.... Just works. Much like I had to role play with the fucking engine couple says ago till it found the correct manual.

Thanks.

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cobysev 7 points 2 months ago

Firefox has tons of extensions to remove/hide/block AI overview in Google searches. Just search "Google AI" on their extensions page and you'll get nearly a dozen extensions to choose from.

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darkangelazuarl 6 points 2 months ago

Or just stop using Google. Hit them where it hurts.

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phoenixz 6 points 2 months ago

Turning off google AI overview is aimple;: stop using google

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Flower 6 points 2 months ago

Keep asking it questions until it doesn't want to answer you anymore because you cost so much money /s

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MeatPilot 3 points 2 months ago

Just keep asking "why" like a 4 year old. See how deep the rabbit hole goes

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samus12345 3 points 2 months ago

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dwemthy 5 points 2 months ago

https://tenbluelinks.org/ has a good setup to make a non AI version of Google your browser's default search
Of course that's assuming you specifically want to such with Google

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samus12345 2 points 2 months ago

This method worked on Firefox for me, on desktop as well as mobile. Haven't tried it on Chrome because I figured I could use it if I get desperate trying to find something.

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SalmonTractor 4 points 2 months ago

Is there a browser plugin to constantly query their AI in the background? Wasting their power might send a message.

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vapeloki 4 points 2 months ago

https://docs.searxng.org/

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vanillama 3 points 2 months ago

I add a query parameter to go to web search, rather than the default search, so no slop here

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ruuster13 2 points 2 months ago

The chatbot has history. So it's just trying to remove the Nvidia rtx5090 from her throat.

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