Blocking Gemini

[Andycat]

Has anyone managed to block Geminin? We're not a Google school, but in Chrome Gemini is always there.

 

We use Smoothwall and have AI  blocked in there, but the web Gemini always persists.

[Zedster1974-MGS]

Following as would be really useful to be able to do this!

[tom_newton]

Can you give some concrete examples - with AI tools blocked, gemini searchers are too:

 

[mjhardisty]

I presume you mean Gemini and AI in Google Chrome and searching?

 

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 GPO 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

[ITGuyNW]

Unpopular answer is we also moved to Edge as we could properly lock it down in this area.

[mjhardisty]

Given they are both Chromuium based, I think the same controls are available in both Edge and Chrome. 

[ITGuyNW]

29 minutes ago, mjhardisty said:

Given they are both Chromuium based, I think the same controls are available in both Edge and Chrome. 

We find, as a Microsoft school, that the Edge rules can be locked down more compared to Chrome.