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Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Tack "&udm=14" on to the end of a normal search, and you'll be booted into the clean 10 blue links interface. While Google might not let you set this as a default, if you have a way to automatically edit the Google search URL, you can create your own defaults.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A small proxy site was written to do this for you: https://udm14.com/

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Can also just add a custom search engine to Firefox with the search URL string:

https://www.google.com/search?udm=14&q=%s

No need to go through a completely separate site.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And this way you'll be sure the intermediate site isn't also scraping your data.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That site is open source, in GitHub. Not much to it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm not a programmer. Can I add this to the url string I already have as my default custome search?

Example:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14&q=%s

Or is this the same thing as yours: https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14