NoGen Search

About

A browser extension that helps to filter AI-generated content from popular search engines like Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo. It also provides some options to disable certain AI features on these platforms.

Features

• Filter search results based on a specified date range
• Predefined date filtering presets for the years 2023 and 2022
• Search engine-specific settings (disabling Google Overview, DuckDuckGo AI chat, and others)
• Exclude specific websites from your search query
• Lightweight and fast

Permissions

• cookies: To modify cookies in cases when it's the only way to disable a certain feature (for instance, Bing uses them to store an information about copilot status)
• scripting: Inject JavaScript into web pages to hide elements, such as Google's Overview, from the page source code
• tabs: For JavaScript injection and modify query parameters on browsers that use ManifestV3
• webRequest and webRequestBlocking: Monitor and modify URLs when needed
• declarativeNetRequest: Used in ManifestV3 for creating network rules
• storage: Save and retrieve user preferences and settings

Download

Or on a release page

Resources

Huge thanks to Nicholas Taylor for his article about Bing Date Search Operators. It wasn't obvious to figure out how they work 😅

And thanks to Zach! Google AI Overviews Blocker was an inspiration for this project

Usage Notes

The extension manifest is defined in src/manifest.js and used by @samrum/vite-plugin-web-extension in the vite config.

Background, content scripts, options, and popup entry points exist in the src/entries directory.

Content scripts are rendered by src/entries/contentScript/renderContent.js which renders content within a ShadowRoot and handles style injection for HMR and build modes.

Otherwise, the project functions just like a regular Vite project.

To switch between Manifest V2 and Manifest V3 builds, use the MANIFEST_VERSION environment variable defined in .env

HMR during development in Manifest V3 requires Chromium version >= 110.0.5480.0.

Refer to @samrum/vite-plugin-web-extension for more usage notes.

Project Setup

npm install

You can customize your build via .env file

MANIFEST_VERSION=3
FIREFOX_BUILD=0

• MANIFEST_VERSION - manifest version you want to use (2 or 3)
• FIREFOX_BUILD - is the build for Firefox (0 - no, 1 - yes)

Project Setup

npm install

Commands

Build

Development, HMR

Hot Module Reloading is used to load changes inline without requiring extension rebuilds and extension/page reloads Currently only works in Chromium based browsers.

npm run dev

Development, Watch

Rebuilds extension on file changes. Requires a reload of the extension (and page reload if using content scripts)

npm run watch

Production

Minifies and optimizes extension build

npm run build

Load extension in browser

Loads the contents of the dist directory into the specified browser

npm run serve:chrome

npm run serve:firefox

License

GPLv3.