Your browser wasn’t always a billboard — this free tool cuts the AI hype and gets back to the web

Remember the days when your web browser was just a web browser, and not an AI-pushing, shop-selling, sponsored-content-shovelling annoyance? Corbin Davenport does, and he's made a tool to take all of that stuff out of the most common browsers: Chrome, Edge and Firefox.

The tool is a little script that works on the Windows, Mac and Linux versions of the three browsers (except for Edge on Linux, which is not currently supported). And as you'll see in a moment, it's pretty simple to use.

It's worth noting that Just The Browser changes your browser's settings, not the sites you visit – so Google.com will still answer your queries with AI summaries. If you want to get rid of that too you'll need to use the workaround. There are extensions for Chrome and Firefox that you can use to remove it automatically ...