I have truly noticed a change in how I am engaging with content nowadays, I have become more reluctant on clicking on links to articles or videos that have been made in these last few years, and when I do I started by looking for clues if it has been generated by ai. if the voice is human or generated, if the pictures are of real events or slop. I mistrust everything. and it’s exhausting. earlier slop was easier to detect nowadays it’s becoming impossible.


I’ve been filtering my search results to not show anything after 2020 for a while now. The only annoying thing is that I have to do it every time I search, I’d love a way to set it as default.
a custom search string URL may be what you’re looking for
for example, I use the following with the Fennec fork of Firefox Android to restrict the date to before the public launch of ChatGPT, while simultaneously disabling DuckDuckGo’s AI features:
https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%25s&df=1979-01-01..2022-11-29here’s DDG’s guide on search URL parameters; most major search engines should have similar documentation
Tested by searching for “Avengers Doomsday” which shouldn’t have returned anything about the movie this year.
It did. A lot.
…ffffffuuuuuuuuck
You could write a bash script to do it and perform searches from the terminal. It will open a new tab or window in your browser with the term you entered with the appropriate settings. Then set the bash script as an alias to make it easier to use.
You can also just vibe code an extension to do the same.