Dev builds open-source extension to replace Google's Gemini previews with local distilled BERT

menhguin · x · 2026-11-10

Developer audrlo dislikes Google's Gemini AI previews in search, so they built a browser extension that overrides them entirely.

Instead of a generative model, it uses a version of BERT distilled on SQuAD 1.1: no content generation, everything runs locally, and the project is open source. A screenshot shows search results back to classic featured snippets.

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