This Script Removes Artificial Intelligence Features From Chrome, Edge, and Firefox.
Tech companies are becoming increasingly pushy in promoting their massive language models—prominent buttons for these AI features are located on every surface designers can imagine, including the three most popular browsers: Chrome, Edge, and Firefox.
If you want to get rid of these AI features and never see them again, there’s a script for that. JustTheBrowser is a free, open-source tool from developer and tech blogger Corbin Davenport that removes AI features, telemetry reports, sponsored content, product integrations, and other annoying elements from Chrome, Firefox, and Microsoft Edge. Essentially, you can run it once and never think about these features again.
To get started, go to the JustTheBrowser homepage . There are scripts there for copying (which I won’t include here in case they change in the future).
Windows users will need to run PowerShell as administrator—the easiest way to do this is by right-clicking PowerShell in the Start menu and selecting “Run as administrator.” For Mac and Linux users, there’s a different script—simply copy it into the regular Terminal.
In either case, you’ll be asked which browser you want to update settings for—just click the number that corresponds to what you want to do.
In my tests on Windows, the process was very simple—I simply pressed a number, and the script did its job. On macOS, I had to follow a few instructions to enable the configuration policy in the Settings app, which took just a couple of clicks. After that, Chrome completely removed any mention of artificial intelligence.
A number of other features have also disappeared, including those annoying prompts to change your default browser.
The operating principle is quite interesting: it uses features designed for large organizations. Most major browsers allow group settings that allow IT departments to control what you can and cannot do in the browser. These settings include those that allow you to disable artificial intelligence features.
It’s an interesting workaround, and hopefully it will continue to work. There’s always the possibility that browser developers will make it so that even IT departments can’t disable AI features, and then we’ll all have to find a new solution (or switch to an alternative browser).