Google’s AI Preview is driving me insane!

I just want web pages!

Instead when I type a search, what happens? It thinks for a moment or two, then produces this bargain basement guess, summarised from whatever blended together soup of opinions it found on the web.

I don’t want that! I never asked for that!!

When I’m researching for my writing I need the actual facts. Many topics are highly dependent on the source.

Google, why do you grind off the serial numbers and sell me this crappy, high-school student answer?

Who ever asked for this?

Searching for a Fix

Well, I finally got annoyed enough to go looking for a fix. 

Seems like plenty of other folks are like me. Tom’s Hardware has an article about a Chrome Plugin called Bye, Bye Google AI. It also lists one called Hide Google AI Overview. 

That second one sounds more technically accurate, as far as the name goes - but I like Bye Bye Google AI better. 

But I’m not going to install either of them, because although I use Chrome for development - that is testing my code - I use Safari on my Mac when I’m researching. 

I use Safari a Lot

Safari blocks a lot of trackers and privacy invading cookies for me without having to install and keep up to date a bunch of plugins that might have security issues of their own.

I enjoy making web developers stop being lazy and actually build their products properly so that they work with Safari as well as Chrome. Another great benefit of using Safari.

Plus it’s also the same browser I have on my iPhone, and I like the synchronization.

So here’s how I fixed my Google AI Preview problem. I just pressed command-comma to open the settings panel, and then, changed the search engine to Duck-Duck-Go.

So I’m being tongue in cheek here. I fixed the problem by getting rid of Google.

But seriously - isn’t it time?

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