I blocked the section on the google search with ublock origin on my work browser.
this post was submitted on 12 May 2026
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Or just stop using Google altogether?
I could do that. But other search engines arent producing any better outout for my search terms (and I honestly couldnt be bothered much to change it on every device I use.
Instead I protest by using firefox.
Wiki should always be the first step to your research. It's the sum of all human knowledge, I can't even begin to tell you how much I learn from Wikipedia.
If required, I've been having the following setup for a years or so. It works like a charm:
- Set udm=14 as the default search "engine";
- Install an extension to hide the common places, like the following: Hide Google AI Overviews;
- Disable buttons in UI as the search/omnibox;
Related:
- https://udm14.com/
- How to Remove AI From Your Google Chrome Experience
Why not switch from a free corporate surveillance tracker to an actual web browser?
Thank you! Mostly, because Chromium based are used by the most people around the world, and it's related to my job in web-dev and security, since at least 2014.
It's hard to guess what you actually meant, but let's guess...
- For a client, do you mean Firefox/LibreWolf/non-vendor?
Has less features for modern web-dev. Well, sure, yet the development environment is much more featureful in Chromium. - For a search engine, do you mean a SearXNG instance or such as services as Kagi?
Of course, but it's unstable/erroneous from my experience, at this point of life. Yet, is monitored for better times.
If you absolutely want to go Chromium, go Vivaldi.
I'm running Duckduckgo on Brave browser. how much difference do these programs make?
Stop using brave will help a alot.
what about fennec or librewolf?
Searxng is self hosted and open source which pull results from other search engines. This means it can be effectively customized however you want and prevents a lot of cross site tracking but his less reliable then a standard search engine.
Kagi is a paid search engine which is privacy focused, has better customization but I don't really know a lot about it beyond that
I'm in the same boat as the other reply, I can use them for a lot of stuff but for ANYTHING work related even just viewing my schedule let alone sending HR a sick note or w/e I need chrome proper to log into the organization's intranet. Degoogled chromium, even Firefox just keeps reprompting me to enter my authenticator codes.
I personally choose not to work with organizations that require I use Google products. I take a huge pay cut in doing so, but I can at least look at myself in the mirror and respect myself.
Yeah that's not an option in healthcare. Regulatory privacy compliance basically just doesn't support open source auth.
Searxng has been great I get the results I want and never see anything AI related on unless it is on the site.
May I ask what instances you've found the most reliable and informative, considering?:
Not only this one... mainly, SearXNG instances are polluted by requests from the millions of self hosted AI instances these days...
Several open-source AI projects have a SearXNG integration / TBH that was never the intention...
Source: https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/5286#issuecomment-3621869284
I use just use docker and host my own using a script for Arch or Fedora depending which one I'm using.