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I work in an education setting and in the last month, Google started preloading the contents of other sites directly on the search page. It is wreaking havoc when combined with our blocking tools because kids will do a Google search for something innocuous and the page will immediately get blocked because it tried to load a result from Reddit or coursehero or something else we have blocked.
It's incredibly frustrating.
If you have to stick with google, you can use udm=14. https://tedium.co/2024/05/17/google-web-search-make-default/ You can set it as default search provider.
This is available in the UI too - there's a tab labeled "Web". Sometimes it's hiding under "More".
Adding it to the search provider URL is a good idea though.
Does that work in Firefox? Seems like I don’t have the ability to edit the address.
Yeah, even on mobile you can do it.
Thanks for the tip
Amazing, thank you!
time to switch to Qwant, ecosia, or duckduckgo
Google search has sucked for a couple years now. DuckDuckGo is better for everything except maps.
Thats because for some ungodly reason they use Apple Maps. Not sure why they dont integrat with an OpenStreetMaps like service. At least that way users can start contributing to fill the gaps
Mapy is also a great European alternative, based on OpenStreetMaps
That's been my go to since they started. There is/was a challenge using them when we evaluated them a while back with forcing safe search reliability if I recall the reason.