Kill it with CSS.

udm14 is supporting the cause.

Heads-up: udm56 is no longer working—Google appears to have disabled that. We’ve added a redirect to udm14.

Well, @udm14.bsky.social’s biggest referrer is Google.

Google Web Guide: Does It Break &udm=14? No, But … Google announces a plan to add yet another barrier to the ease of getting an ultra-simple Web search. Great.

Here’s @tedium.co’s assessment of the changes to the Web view we’re based on. Does it break what we do? No—but it could add an extra step to searches.

tedium.co/2025/07/25/g...

Some quick analysis.

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I have some bad news

We added this piece to the @udm14.bsky.social homepage.

Our tool makes AI overviews less annoying, but in aggregate, the knock-on effects matter. We hope you click the link and read Emanuel’s excellent piece.

Analysis | Try these hidden ‘NOPE’ buttons to stop AI content How to turn off AI in Google and DuckDuckGo web search results, plus a no-AI nuclear option.

And in gift link form! wapo.st/411DlIP

Analysis | Try these hidden ‘NOPE’ buttons to stop AI content How to turn off AI in Google and DuckDuckGo web search results, plus a no-AI nuclear option.

Shockingly, our little hack is still making waves.

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

aww, I have a little brother

I’m on top of it

A year ago today, I had a weird idea, and despite a couple of competing… | Ernie Smith A year ago today, I had a weird idea, and despite a couple of competing deadlines, a deep desire to see it through. That idea turned into the most viral thing I’ve ever been associated with in my ent...

In honor of @udm14.bsky.social celebrating its one-year anniversary, I wrote a little thing on LinkedIn:

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The power of small experiments is that they can sometimes become big ideas.

Oh shit I forgot about this guy. I don’t usually interact with haters, but I felt it was important to interact with you because nobody else does

In that year, we’ve seen 1.75 million unique visitors across udm14.com and udm14.org, and we get 140,000 new visitors every month.

Turns out, people just want Google to work!

We hope our little hack keeps working for years to come.

kermit the frog is typing on a typewriter in a dark room . Alt: kermit the frog is typing on a typewriter in a dark room .

Hi, today is our one-year anniversary. Nobody bake us a cake.

Fix Google search instead.

Shockingly, we’re still here. https://udm14.com

*deep sigh*

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo anything but that

Expanding AI Overviews and introducing AI Mode AI Mode is a new generative AI experiment in Google Search.

The most important news in this post is that they have not broken @udm14.bsky.social. blog.google/products/sea...

For transparency, a quick note: We added a small ad to support server costs. It is from a trusted partner we’ve worked with for years, and can be easily ignored.

If you don’t want it, the original version is here: udm14.com/old/

It's entirely possible the ampersand is driving it nuts.

I attempted to update the code to be close to a known working one and it didn't work.

Maybe a bug on Thunderbird’s end? I tried a few things and could not get it to work. It seems to be the only browser that doesn’t like it.

Also, they ended up making other things on the server end mad. Given that this is a niche use case, I’d suggest reaching out to them to determine the issue.

It may be a Thunderbird-specific bug as the format works just fine in Firefox. I have made a couple of tweaks on my end but it seems like it’s not happy whatever I do.

You’re using a broken URL. it’s udm14.com/search.xml

Oh, and don’t bother calling 911 anymore. Here’s the real number. Image: Homer Simpson looking at “912” on a sheet of paper.

Hi, we’re the 912 of search.

udm14.com

Spoiler: the magic word isn't 'please.' A simple trick to keep google from putting AI slop before your search results.

According to @metafilter.bsky.social if you put a swear word in your search you can skip the AI.

I think that means &udm=14 is also a swear word according to Google.

Fuck yeah!

www.metafilter.com/207430/Spoil...

udm14’s biggest referrer is Google, which is pretty funny if you think about it.

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