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Getting rid of AI Google overview (not a tutorial)

Since I noticed that google makes an AI overview when you search I've been annoyed by it, it really gets in my way when I search for something (besides giving wrong information sometimes) and I hate that there isn't an option to turned it off and we have no control over it (why Google? why?), so I looked for ways to get rid of it. I could try other search engines, I know, but I feel like google has the majority of the data compare to other engines, I just want to search the web, no AI thanks.

I saw that the simplest way was to add -ai in your search but sometimes I'd forget to, then I thought "What if I make an addon that does this?" and I know, searching for it there are addons that does hides these overviews but I didn't want to rely in someone else code when I could write it myself and learn in the process. I learned how to do extensions on chrome and thought it wouldn't be much different for Firefox and it really wasn't.

I read through the documentation and found this article that teaches you how to redirect a request. I basically had to change a few lines of code from that example and I was done, this took me no more than 30 minutes. I knew this would be fast, I only had to take the request and add -ai to the search after all. It works fine, but the only problem I have is that I can´t install permanently this extension. In Chrome you can but not on Firefox, it deletes it if you restart Firefox because it's supposed to be for testing, although It's not a big problem for me since I rarely close the browser.

What about publishing the extension? I could try but, why would I publish this silly extension? It's basically a code made for me, maybe if I add other functionalities in the future I'll think about it. For now this is a solution that works for me, it's rough but it does what I need it to do.

Maybe It's just time to change to another search engine?

Thanks for reading (●'◡'●)

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