Kind of ironic the author is complaining about the quality of google search results when this website seems to be almost unusable to me on mobile due to whole-page, in-line and overlay ads.
Bye Bye, AI: How to block Google's AI overviews and just get search results
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Re: Bye Bye, AI: How to block Google's AI overviews and just get search results
#12Slightly offtopic but it was very easy to turn off the duckduckgo ai results, it was one toggle
Re: Bye Bye, AI: How to block Google's AI overviews and just get search results
#13Kind of ironic the author is complaining about the quality of google search results when this website seems to be almost unusable to me on mobile due to whole-page, in-line and overlay ads.
more like "kind of ironic the site is running an article on ...", authors really don't get to control that.
Re: Bye Bye, AI: How to block Google's AI overviews and just get search results
#14Now that there's a technology threatening the continued existence of developers, we're seeing a backlash here on HN and elsewhere. Fascinating, but all too expected. Just remember how you feel now when working on projects putting other people out of work and consider the ramifications of what you're doing. What's that you say? You're just streamlining processes and cutting waste? Hate to inform you, some of that "was…
"Now that there's a technology threatening the continued existence of developers"
LOL...keep dreaming...I'll be long retired before that happens...
I'm excited to see where the tech goes, but right now - I put it right up there with cold fusion and self-driving cars.
might be worth taking another look at it in 5 years.
Re: Bye Bye, AI: How to block Google's AI overviews and just get search results
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
That’s not what this is about at all. This is about opting out of a bad GenAI experience that gets in the way of you finding the information you’re looking for.
This is just one article out of many that I've noticed here on HN over the past few weeks that are very anti-AI. As such, I have a sneaky suspicion that what I wrote is exactly what this backlash is about.
No. The backlash in this particular case is not against the AI itself. It is against companies abusing their users, i.e. enshittification.
Re: Bye Bye, AI: How to block Google's AI overviews and just get search results
#16Now that there's a technology threatening the continued existence of developers, we're seeing a backlash here on HN and elsewhere. Fascinating, but all too expected. Just remember how you feel now when working on projects putting other people out of work and consider the ramifications of what you're doing. What's that you say? You're just streamlining processes and cutting waste? Hate to inform you, some of that "was…
You don't seem self consistent in your beliefs. Not even an hour ago you commented on a thread that self-driving vehicles will not exist any time in the near future, and yet here you're proposing that "ai" is going to replace developers soon? You believe that "ai" will be capable of the logical gymnastics that development requires, to replace developers, but that the same level of "ai" isn't anywhere near capable of…
One data point: teenagers can drive cars but are rarely hired as developers. I haven’t quite thought it through enough to conclude that driving is easier though.
Re: Bye Bye, AI: How to block Google's AI overviews and just get search results
#17Now that there's a technology threatening the continued existence of developers, we're seeing a backlash here on HN and elsewhere. Fascinating, but all too expected. Just remember how you feel now when working on projects putting other people out of work and consider the ramifications of what you're doing. What's that you say? You're just streamlining processes and cutting waste? Hate to inform you, some of that "was…
The article isn't about replacing developers; author complains about AI summaries that don't add anything useful, often are also wrong, and cannot be turned off.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
You don't seem self consistent in your beliefs. Not even an hour ago you commented on a thread that self-driving vehicles will not exist any time in the near future, and yet here you're proposing that "ai" is going to replace developers soon? You believe that "ai" will be capable of the logical gymnastics that development requires, to replace developers, but that the same level of "ai" isn't anywhere near capable of…
One data point: teenagers can drive cars but are rarely hired as developers. I haven’t quite thought it through enough to conclude that driving is easier though.
I think anyone attempting to compare the difficulty of abstractly related things runs into the problem of unrealized depth in the maneuver.
you can spend a lifetime sharpening your developer skills, same goes for driving.
in old age i've settled on the answer that most things really can't be compared in such terms. It runs into the donnie darko "not everything is black and white" issue real fast.
Re: Bye Bye, AI: How to block Google's AI overviews and just get search results
#19Now that there's a technology threatening the continued existence of developers, we're seeing a backlash here on HN and elsewhere. Fascinating, but all too expected. Just remember how you feel now when working on projects putting other people out of work and consider the ramifications of what you're doing. What's that you say? You're just streamlining processes and cutting waste? Hate to inform you, some of that "was…
> Now that there's a technology threatening the continued existence of developers, we're seeing a backlash here on HN and elsewhere.
You don't have to 'feel threatened' to want to disable a ux feature that provides a worse experience.
Similarly I don't really think that disabling said feature is 'backlash'.
Re: Bye Bye, AI: How to block Google's AI overviews and just get search results
#20Now that there's a technology threatening the continued existence of developers, we're seeing a backlash here on HN and elsewhere. Fascinating, but all too expected. Just remember how you feel now when working on projects putting other people out of work and consider the ramifications of what you're doing. What's that you say? You're just streamlining processes and cutting waste? Hate to inform you, some of that "was…
threathening the continued existence of developers? Lol, no. Not by a looooooong shot