https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist

Install this blocklist using the instructions on the GitHub page. For Firefox, you will need to install uBlockOrigin for this. Google Chrome no longer allows the uBlockOrigin extension, so I'm assuming you're at least primarily a Firefox user - or about to be (see browser alternatives below).

For Google Chrome or mobile browsers, this will work with uBlacklist. See the GitHub page for full details on compatibility.

Remove AI Widgets:

If you go to your uBlockOrigin Filter lists page, you can select to filter out AI Widgets - this should completely remove the 'AI Mode' widget/button from your Google search page, in addition to the work done by the Huge AI Blocklist.

Using the uBlockOrigin Huge AI Blocklist filter has made my Google searches look like they used to, and gives me genuine search results.

Look at this. It's beautiful. It's informative. It's not a heap of burning trash bloated with fake information made up by a hallucinating chat bot.

We can go even further: return to the old school search results.

Now, the above results are great and should be free of generative AI junk, but some people would rather not see any of the summary widgets or 'people also ask' box at all. Fear not! You can remove all that by using the 'Web' mode in the Google search bar. Click the 'More' drop down menu and select 'Web'.

Huzzah! Incredible. It's like a functional search engine again.

You can make this the default Google search mode in Google Chrome using Method 1 from this page (https://allthings.how/how-to-turn-off-ai-mode-in-google-chrome/). Unfortunately, I don't know if there's a way to do this in Firefox too. This is why for the most part I still use DuckDuckGo (see below) as my default search engine, and only use Google to supplement my searches on the rare occasion I'm just missing something.

Remember, if you clear your cookies, your search engine preferences will reset, including any settings you enabled/disabled to avoid AI. This applies to DuckDuckGo as well; check your settings every time you clear your browser!

Extra filters (optional):

I've also added four filters (their order doesn't matter) to the My Filters page. Full disclosure: I'm not sure they still work, or may only work on Chrome, but I'm keeping them anyway, just in case.

From https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1i7kg83/comment/m8lllwr/: see which solution in the list works for you, it seems to be different for everybody.

google.*##div[jscontroller]:not(:has(div[jscontroller].YzCcne)):has(.YzCcne)

From https://allthings.how/how-to-turn-off-ai-mode-in-google-chrome/:

www.google.com##.Beswgc

www.google.com##.olrp5b

www.google.com##.hdzaWe

Make sure you hit the apply changes button when you add filters.

Browser alternatives: escaping Google Chrome.

If you haven't jumped ship from Chrome yet, I'd recommend doing so. Sometimes Chrome outperforms Firefox for niche purposes or because a website doesn't bother to fully support non-Chrome browsers, but the days of Chrome being the superior browser are long gone — by about 10 years. If you're trying to escape Chromium browsers, beware that a lot of the popular Chrome alternatives are just Chrome in a different hat.

Firefox has been the most popular non-Chromium browser for years, and for good reason. However, the company running Mozilla Firefox has annoyed their users, me included, by refusing to take an anti- generative-ai stance, and even included AI features in the Mozilla Firefox browser. Most Firefox users specifically use it because they hate Google's enshittification and want a privacy-focused, clean browser that doesn't hog their RAM and CPU for no reason. So, you can imagine that Mozilla's attitude has pissed us all off recently. You can turn off the AI features in Firefox with the built-in settings, but the company has recently steered straight into the burning garbage heap by saying they want to make the browser based on AI.

Waterfox and LibreWolf:

There are really good alternatives based on Firefox (open-source) which are not affiliated with Mozilla (the company), if you don't like how it operates. Waterfox and LibreWolf are even more trimmed down and privacy-focused than Mozilla's Firefox, and don't use AI. Anti-ai statements: Waterfox and LibreWolf.

From this page: https://programming.dev/post/42546774

In short: LibreWolf is for those who want a “locked-down” fortress out of the box, while Waterfox is for those who want a privacy-conscious browser that still feels like a normal, convenient daily driver. Choose LibreWolf if: You want the highest level of privacy without having to manually edit config files, and you don’t mind occasionally “fixing” a broken website or re-logging into accounts. Choose Waterfox if: You want a privacy-respecting browser that supports Firefox Sync, has an Android counterpart, and handles streaming sites/logins without any extra friction (it supports WideWine out of the box, which lets you stream DRM protected content (netflix, hulu, disney, etc). — [email protected]

I've heard good things about both of these browsers and will investigate them further to decide whether to personally switch from Mozilla Firefox.

DuckDuckGo:

I would also recommend installing the DuckDuckGo extension to your browsers and setting it to be your default search engine.

I've had DuckDuckGo installed on my browsers, Chrome or Firefox, for like 10 years now. It is a good search engine, it's unobtrusive, and blocks trackers, cookies, and does not save any data about you. I've also used it as my default mobile browser for years, along with Firefox mobile, which you can add the AI Blocklist to (see again the GitHub page). I haven't tried the DuckDuckGo desktop browser yet, but I imagine it works just fine like the mobile version. I think DuckDuckGo's browser is also Chromium-based, at least indirectly. I use Firefox with the DuckDuckGo extension so I can have a widely-supported, non-Chromium browser, but include all of DuckDuckGo's anti-tracking features.

Note: DuckDuckGo has included AI in its browser product, however you can opt-out of all AI features with the built-in settings and they will not push it on you like Google does. I hope they remove AI features entirely in the future, but for now I am comfortable with the barriers in place to keep AI out of my face. Firefox also has AI features like Chrome does, which you can turn off with the built-in settings.

There's also noai.duckduckgo search, an alternative version of its normal search engine which removes AI-generated images and turns off AI results/assists by default. Even though DuckDuckGo's inclusion of any AI features annoys me, its policy to make these features 100% optional builds trust with this browser/extension/search engine.

You can always use Google search if you need to, but with uBlockOrigin and the AI Blocklist filter added on, at least you shouldn't have AI-altered search results or the AI overview anymore.

Other browsers exist, probably:

There are certainly more non-Chromium alternatives out there, but Firefox, Waterfox, and LibreWolf are the top three recommended to me. That link to alternatives, plus this ComputerCity page are the best lists I could find in a brief search. If you google "non-Chromium browsers" you'll get a lot of mixed results which require a bit of digging to realise they're not really recommending you what you looked for at all.

I've heard about Ecosia over the years, and while I like the idea of a search engine that plants a tree for each query, I don't think that's actually what happens — at least, that's what they used to be reputed to do, but I believe that's an unsustainable business model which has likely changed. In 2026, Ecosia says it uses 100% of its profits for the planet and runs its search engine off clean energy. That's cool! It's still Chromium-based. And it also uses generative AI for chat bots, so I don't trust its principles on environmentalism. I need to do more reading on this to form a stronger opinion about it.

I hope this post has helped at least some of you have a better experience browsing the web and googling your questions.

There seems to be an impression among a lot of Avatar fans that liking this series makes them pro-Indigenous somehow and I hate to be the one to tell you this but that is flatly wrong. Just because the story includes Indigenous/Indigenous-coded characters, doesn't mean James Cameron is handling this subject properly. Indigenous people have been talking about how disgusting the white-settler fantasy of Avatar is for years, please listen for once.

Indigenous and Black people are so over this shit. I'm so done with the hype of this series but y'all are emboldened by it and think because it is technically advanced it's not a nasty coloniser fantasy.

Following seeing these tweets I saw plenty of racist comments pointedly avoiding the issue at hand and redirecting to the argument of "but, but the Natives na'vi are so mean to the whites humans and human-featured kids. you think it's okay to bully children for how they look?" This is bad faith, disingenuous bullshit I'll not entertain.

The fans are living their depraved "reverse racism is real" fantasies through this series, plain and simple. I saw the actor Zoe (who plays Neytiri) call Neytiri "racist" against humans and that is so fucking backwards. I've seen people call that character a bigot, even people who agree with her stance. The word is prejudiced - and justifiably so. She is not racist, you cannot do reverse racism. She is a Native-coded woman of an Indigenous population on her planet who has been brutally attacked and lived under colonial violence for decades. She has a justified prejudice against human colonisers. That's not bigoted at all, that's a good, fair reaction to keep herself and her people safe. It is completely fair that she resents that colonisers have infiltrated her clan, and her family.

People (majority whites) are using the latest movie Avatar: Fire and Ash as an excuse to live out their cultural appropriation fantasies because they're cosplaying as "aliens" not as real Indigenous people. But y'all ARE cosplaying as real Indigenous people because the na'vi are BASED ON real Indigenous people. Your Avatar aesthetics are ripped off actual cultures. Just because you have two degrees of separation from the source, doesn't mean you're absolved of your anti-Indigenous racism. A lot of non-Indigenous people are making characters and stories based off this series, all of it Indigenous-coded and full of white-settler themes, without thinking twice. You are not handling this subject with care, and neither is James Cameron.

FUCK. THIS. SERIES.

People are willing to try anything to not get sick except the only thing that reliably works because that one thing can’t be done secretly and spoils the illusion that everything is alright.

The thing that reliably works is wearing an N95-equivalent respirator/mask, every time you are in a crowded or enclosed space that has been occupied, is occupied, or will be occupied by people outside your immediate household.

Here's the criteria for places you need to wear a mask:

People outside your immediate household were/are/will be present,

AND

the place is enclosed, OR the place is crowded.

And you have to keep your mask on 100% of the time, unless you need to temporarily remove it for medical or security purposes. Not to eat, or drink, or cough around other people. Make sure the mask fits your face, and the nose wire has been pressed down to make a seal.

N95/KN95/KF94/P2 respirators are suitable to filter out aerosols (airborne viral particles) - find one that fits your face shape and size, and buy them in bulk. They are cheap, available online, and come in many colours and fits.

Start here: https://linktr.ee/buymasks & my Twitter thread with resources linked below.

COVID zine by Hazel (many more links & resources in their thread)

Corsi-Rosenthal Box (DIY air purifier)

How to assemble the Corsi-Rosenthal Box (3 minute YouTube video)

N95 vs FFP3 & FFP2 - what's the difference? (this is from 2023 so the info may be old now RE stats or studies' conclusions)

ZeroCovidCommunity subreddit: resources & finding community for fellow COVID-conscious (CC) people, long COVID (LC) resources, & what to do if you're infected.

maskblog.org: the global mask bloc directory.

Pro tip from the mask bloc directory's zine:

N95 has head straps, which provide a superior seal to ear loops.

KN95/KF94 has ear loops.

Masks labelled "N95" with ear loops may be fake! There are some exceptions, but it's not worth the risk; don't trust their quality. See page 15 of the zine for details.

We've known respirators work the whole time:

Remove AI garbage from your web browsing experience with the uBlockOrigin Huge AI Blocklist

I just find it really heartwarming to see that literally hundreds of people have potentially been positively impacted by something I wrote. I hope you've found it helpful, and even if you haven't followed the advice I provided yet, it'll be there for when you need it.

Little by little, we can make the world a better place, and it starts with something as small as sharing a resource which makes searching for real information easier, while cutting off clicks/revenue for generative AI (at least on the search engine side of things).

If that post helped even 1 person learn about adblockers, search engines, and browser alternatives that can block AI, web tracking, etc, then it was worth every second I put into making that post as informative as I could. I know it's a bit long, but I tried to keep it as concise and readable as possible. It's not a fully comprehensive guide, but I hope it's a good enough starting point for the average internet user.

Most importantly, I hope it inspires people to remain curious and removes the barrier to entry, so to speak, when it comes to learning about the tech they browse the internet on. The information is out there, you need only reach for it; there are people everywhere who would love to help you if you ask them.

Stay curious! Keep learning, and teaching! :D

There is something deeply wrong with the scientists who work(ed) on nuclear weapons projects, including the US Manhattan Project and all the utterly suicidal experiments it birthed. Like this one, at the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico, USA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core#Second_incident (foreshadowing is a literary device in wh-)

First Incident:

Good of him to prevent the Demon Core from going completely apeshit, I guess!

What the fuck tho, dude?

"I'm gonna stack the make-it-worse bricks around the melts-people orb, 1 layer at a time, to make it progressively more worse and more melty."

Drops the make-it-worse brick on the melts-people orb.

"Oops."

Side note: what the fuck is up with these people? Could you please exercise some basic fucking sense? Precautions? Taking your fucking time, perhaps? Holy shit. (All regulations are written in blood- I'M A SAFETY OFFICER, I KNOW!)

So, did they learn from this?

Well, uh- NO! They didn't!

"Second Incident"

Let's get some context on this one first.

Can you spot the issue yet? Don't worry, we'll keep reading and see what happens next.

All right, I'll share the pictures of what this looked like:

That image on the left is literally labelled "Tickling the dragon's tail" by the way.

Do you see it now? Why this setup was so fucking busted, and how this could have been idiot-proofed?

I mean, besides the obvious (DON'T USE A FUCKING SCREWDRIVER).

The fucking shell is a large, smooth, round shape. Yes, there's a thumb hole for gripping, but this thing is liable to slip out of your hand. How many bowls have you dropped in your life? How many large bowls do you hold upside down - would that be easy for you? Are your hands large enough, grippy enough for that?

I thought about a few fixes you could do to make this safer. You could attach a handle to it. You could fucking glue a goddamn scrap handle onto it and that would work just fine. But no, that puts the burden on the glue and the handle to work, and for the operator to manufacture that themself. And there's still the matter at hand...

Inevitably, somebody will drop this fucking bowl.

Hence, you're supposed to use shims.

But what if you're reckless, arrogant, or dare I say, lazy? You're gonna use a fucking screwdriver to hold the thing open instead of putting it on shims, aren't you? Because you're a dickhead. Because constantly fiddling with the thing looks "cooler" than gently placing it on some shims. Because I fucking hate you.

All right. I've figured it out. What we can do to make this thing safe.

Easy fix.

During fabrication of the beryllium shells, just MAKE THE EDGE SERRATED. If the halves MUST always have a little gap to allow neutrons to escape, then build it INTO the shape of the shells. A serrated edge instead of a flat one would've fixed that.

Shit, even if the manufacturer didn't do that, you could just go to the nearest hardware store, grab a fucking half-moon file, and put some dents in there yourself.

But these very smart men never thought of that, did they?

No, the fuckfaces that would do nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll didn't have time for using their brain cells for anything sensible - if they started doing that, they'd reconsider their careers or morals or something. Can't have that.

Second Incident:

Vindication for Enrico.

Congrats on winning 1st place in the Darwin Awards, you fucking fools.

I have no goddamn sympathy for these people. Get SHITTED ON by your own DEMON ORB. You goddamn loser fucks.

NOBODY wants this change.

This "feature" doesn't even make sense, it doesn't even align with what other social media platforms do.

On Twitter/X, the OP has ultimate control of the post and can delete the entire thing, with no other versions saved on anyone else's page. There are pros and cons to this, but it's literally the opposite of what Tumblr staff have implemented here.

Most social medias are more similar to Twitter/X in this respect than to Tumblr, so that being the reason behind this change is totally illogical to me. It also adds needless confusion for users, who will have to research how this feature works to understand what their impact is on the engagement of any given post (or reblog of that post). If it's the case that Tumblr changed the notes functionality (which it shouldn't) to align with other socials (which it also shouldn't), the delivery of this feature is a resounding failure.

I would argue that Tumblr is better off not trying to mimic other social media platforms at all.

Tumblr's core features (including the aggregated notes format) are unique and treasured by the user base, and it would excel above other social media platforms if you performed simple bug fixes and improved your website moderation.

This is not a good idea, I can't believe nobody stopped this before it was released. It's confusing for users, it kills engagement, it disincentivises creators from posting here ever again, and it opens users up to risks of widespread harassment through the inability to see, let alone control comments and replies on their own posts.

I understand there are practical reasons that may delay reversing this feature, but you MUST take the time to undo this as soon as possible.

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Send a feedback ticket through https://www.tumblr.com/support.

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I'm obsessed with Ezio, let's play AC Brotherhood