this post was submitted on 29 Dec 2024
49 points (98.0% liked)

Life Pro Tips

2793 readers
81 users here now

Unlocking the Secrets to Success and Fulfillment!

Rules

  1. Share valuable life pro tips.
  2. Keep it concise and clear.
  3. Stay on-topic.
  4. Respect fellow members.
  5. No self-promotion.
  6. Verify information before sharing.
  7. Avoid illegal or unethical advice.
  8. Report rule violations.

Join us and share your best life pro tips!

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
sabbah@lemmy.world
HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world
49
LPT: Adding "&peek_pws=0" to the end of the url on your Google search will turn off personalisation (lemm.ee)
submitted 2 months ago by x4740N@lemm.ee to c/lifeprotips@lemmy.world
5 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

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

top 5 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] teft@lemmy.world 45 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

just saying

[–] GlenRambo@jlai.lu 2 points 2 months ago

This should be a DDG bang! Sometomes the DDG results are crap.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

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

[–] MakingWork@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

That should be standard.

[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Also you can use Startpage, which works like a proxy to google