If only there were a way to stop using Google. Alas…
this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2026
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This has got to be ragebait.
Stop using Screwgle
bonus: most of these (and some of the other suggestions on this thread, like SearXNG) protect your privacy better than Google does
Not google, but https://noai.duckduckgo.com/
Regular ddg also just has a setting where you can turn it off. Is this different?
Yep, it's switched off by default. I like to share this, because I can send it to non-techy people and they instantly have a working search engine, without fiddling with settings.
You don't need to turn it off each time you clear your cookies.
i use it because i use a browser extension that creates temporary throwaway containers replacing all "No Container" to keep site cookies isolated intelligently
Duck duck go
You can already do this. Just append -ai to the end of the search
You can edit your browsers default Google search URL pattern to just always have -ai at the end.
You can also edit the search url to default to the web tab, which only shows link results
SearXNG will not include AI overviews
SearXNG is the single best experience you can get for a search engine imo.
Except when only search result come from mwmbl and yacy because other are banned/captcha/tieout.
I find duckduckgo's results more useful/reliable and you absolutely can disable the ai.
Laughs in Kagi
There must be a way because it no longer appears for me on my phone, but still pops up if I use another device I don't use much for browsing, like my PC. IDK how I managed to turn it off tho. Maybe it just got sick of me swearing at it.
You can add -ai to your search and it will do this
Disable AI extension on Firefox-based browsers.
I don't mind ai, I just don't want their ai
Use a different engine?
ewwww chromepunk utopia and it still somehow looks like LA? Hard pass
If you change your location to France in the region settings (or vpn, I presume) it will turn off the default AI results. Worked for me.
put a swear word like fucking in your query