Huh, I wonder who's responsible. 
we're all trying to find the person who did this
I would like google's AI blurb at the top of search removed not because it reduces click volume to other sites but because it's ALWAYS FUCKING WRONG and no matter how many times I send all caps feedback tagged "NOT FACTUALLY CORRECT" it will still always be fucking wrong.
I hate it. I hate seeing it. I hate knowing it's wrong and still checking to see if, yep this time it's wrong a fucking gain
Years of Wikipedia or a relevant stack overflow post being the first result has just trained people to implicitly trust the blurb. It takes active training to stop, realize it's AI, and scroll down 2 inches to see that the AI blurb is directly refuted by the Wikipedia article that used to be at the top
I’ve started adding “-ai” to every query and it’s a silly “fix” but has been helping
I'm not a fancy computer-knower so maybe by doing this I've beamed the contents of my cybermind directly to an NSA datafort but I downloaded an extension for Firefox that just hides the Google AI overview. Doesn't help me when I'm on my phone, but it's still nice.
You can hide the AI overview in duckduckgo (though this requires enabling cookies)
there's probably a UBO custom script that would do it without the cookie, if you trust those devs more than ddg
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They should know, since they're killing it.
Google has literally broken its direct download option for the latest widevine release in the last 2 weeks, making it more challenging for anyone using a chromium derivative to use something like Netflix or Spotify. Widevine is part of the proprietary DRM garbage they forced into "open web standards" years back.
It's so cool that the only Chromium alternative is literally funded by Google just so they can avoid anti-trust. Time to go back to the Gopher net comrades.
Just like Apple used to be funded by Microsoft for the same reasons
admits? more like brags
"Ah, what a wonderfully green commons, there's enough to here to grow beyond the wildest dreams of the most derranged kleptocrat. Alas, not infinitely. Therefore I must destroy it"
gee. i dont who's responsible for that?
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