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Wes Fenlon

Heroic former PC Gamer writer creates a script to banish all the AI features from Google Chrome

Just the Browser showing an example browser tab with no mess on it.

Former PC Gamer writers have gone on to do amazing things: Pen Star Wars movies, sell millions of extremely good videogames, and, maybe, save the internet? I exaggerate slightly, but tech writer Corbin Davenport released a tool last week called Just the Browser that offers the faintest glimmer of light in this AI abyss we now call the web.

Per the description on Just the Browser's Github page, the project is a script that, when run, will "remove AI features, telemetry data reporting, sponsored content, product integrations, and other annoyances from web browsers." On Windows, all you have to do is open PowerShell as administrator and copy-paste this command:

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