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LPT: Adding "&peek_pws=0" to the end of the url on your Google search will turn off personalisation (lemm.ee)
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Adding the url parameter "&peek_pws=0" to the end of the url on your google search turns off personalised results

Discoverd it after Google suggested it for a search term that didn't have many results

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[-] teft@lemmy.world 46 points 3 months ago

replacing the url with duckduckgo.com will also turn off google personalization.

just saying

[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

But that replaces it with Bing and do you really want that?

[-] joshchandra@midwest.social 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Fine, then move to https://search.trom.tf/; problem solved.

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