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ZenithO-o / Fix-Google-Web-Search

Userscript to remove AI results and other unwanted content from Google web searches
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[Safari] Annoying refresh on every search #2

Open vicmarto opened 1 month ago

vicmarto commented 1 month ago

In Safari 17.5 on macOS Sonoma 14.5 (using Userscripts 4.4.5), the script causes an annoying refresh:

1) On every search, it first loads Google with the “All” tab. 2) It then quickly switches the tab to “Web” (which causes a fast refresh).

Is there any way to avoid this?

isaacl commented 1 month ago

tl;dr no it's not possible to fix this.

The various browser search bars load a page with google general search each time, even if your previous search was in web category.

Potentially there is a cookie google would look at to determine utm parameter but that requires reverse engineering google search and is brittle.

Also you could potentially use a custom search engine with google but with the utm parameter added, but that will require extra typing each time you want to search from the box.

Blame Google for making their search worse.

vicmarto commented 1 month ago

I see. Thank you very much for your detailed reply.

Instead, using Brave (with a custom search engine), it is possible to jump directly to the “Web” tab, avoiding the "All” tab.

Very interesting reading your link, like all of us I too have noticed the gradual deterioration of Google results in these last years. Now I know the reason and the responsible... very sad everything....

I think the best thing to do will be to pass this patch called 'udm=14', and directly abandon the use of Google.

isaacl commented 1 week ago

@vicmarto Glad you liked the link. It's true: many platforms I rely on are in a sad state these days.

You may be interested in Kagi search engine. They have their own crawler, but also indirectly query google for your search (API), and then they filter/reorder google's own results before presenting to you.

I'm currently still using google but this is probably where I'd go if google gets worse.

niko-vv commented 6 days ago

For me, I think adding // @run-at document-start between line 7 and 8 solved this problem (on MacOS Chrome). I haven't really used it enough to see how well it works but appears to remove the refresh thing. On my Pixel 5 with ChromeXt, changing the setting for the userscript to Run At: Start fixed it also.

isaacl commented 6 days ago

@niko-vv That certainly can't fix the redirection but it might make it so fast that you don't notice anymore. I'll send in a PR