Blocking Ai on iPads

[zLenniee]

Hi there,

 

Apologies if this is on the wrong thread.

 

I am trying to block Ai within search engine like Google Overview or Bing's Ai - anyone got any ideas how they are blocking it on specifically iPads?

 

We use Intune as our mdm

 

Thank you

[5tu]

What do you use for filtering?

[zLenniee]

12 minutes ago, 5tu said:

What do you use for filtering?

We use Meraki and Securly - Securly can block Google's Ai mode but not the overview when someone searches anything

[5tu]

I'm not familiar with Securely so will have to defer to someone who is.

 

On Smoothwall there is a "Google - Hide Google AI Overview" content modification policy.

[sigma]

I don’t know Securly, but for iPads (iOS), if you can append “-ai” to the Google search query, it should remove the AI summary from the search results.  (Easy with Netsweeper).
 

For Windows devices, the same can be achieved by appending “&udm=14” .

[mjhardisty]

If you have a firewall that rewrites URLS if you rewrite Google URLs and append &udm=14 to the end it should remove the AI elements from the searches. 

 

For example, you can try it by going to http://google.com/?&udm=14 and then any resultant search adding &utm=14 to the end and refreshing.

 

Otherwise, I did some work on Chrome policies so I've included those below. You should be able to target these in Edge too and muck about in Intune too.

 

Google AI Disabled.

 

Under Devices > Chrome > Settings > Users & Browsers.

 

URLs Blocked:

 

google.com/search?udm=50

lens.google.com

 

Omnisearch Provider settings:

 

Name: Google

Keyword: Google

Search URL: https://www.google.com/search?q={searchTerms}&udm=14&safe=active&ssui=on

Icon URL: https://www.google.com/favicon.ico

 

The following settings have been changed to be disabled:

 

https://chromeenterprise.google/policies/#LensCameraAssistedSearchEnabled

https://chromeenterprise.google/policies/#LensRegionSearchEnabled

https://chromeenterprise.google/policies/#LensOnGalleryEnabled

https://chromeenterprise.google/policies/#LensOverlaySettings

https://chromeenterprise.google/policies/#LensDesktopNTPSearchEnabled

https://chromeenterprise.google/policies/#AIModeSettings

https://chromeenterprise.google/policies/#GenAiDefaultSettings

https://chromeenterprise.google/policies/#ShowAiIntroScreenEnabled

https://chromeenterprise.google/policies/#GenAIPhotoEditingSettings

 

This will stop the majority of AI requests, but users can still get around by navigating directly to search engine pages.

 

If this isn’t sufficient, there is also an extension to rewrite any Google URL with &udm=14

 

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/google-udm14/ackpmepblmioeoofggbipphdaooogjga?pli=1