Tell HN: Use "-f**k" to kill Google AI Overview

Re:Tell HN: Use "-f**k" to kill Google AI Overview by lsharkey602 on Monday September 01, 2025 @05:46AM (#45091169)

Try https://www.startpage.com/, which is google, with privacy, and without AI

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Re:Tell HN: Use "-f**k" to kill Google AI Overview by perihelions on Monday September 01, 2025 @06:59AM (#45091626)

Seems to be owned by an ad-tech company, the same one that bought (but later divested from) the Waterfox browser.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System1 ("System1 is an American Internet advertising company")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25716158 ("Startpage.com: Privacy-oriented search engine (startpage.com)"—88 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22338321 ("Waterfox sold to System1, an ad company that bought a majority of Startpage (reddit.com)"—92 comments)

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Re:Tell HN: Use "-f**k" to kill Google AI Overview by mrrobit on Monday September 01, 2025 @06:19AM (#45091358)

This is the way. Works very well, allows you to open any page in a private mode kind of thing thanks to a proxy of their own (like a one time VPN). From duckduckgo you can use the flag "!sp" to trigger a startpage search.

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Re:Tell HN: Use "-f**k" to kill Google AI Overview by Gualdrapo on Monday September 01, 2025 @06:46AM (#45091541)

It's really great, though for the time I've been using it, sometimes ads from the google side go through it.

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Re:Tell HN: Use "-f**k" to kill Google AI Overview by rubenvanwyk on Monday September 01, 2025 @05:53AM (#45091216)

Very cool, thanks for sharing.

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