Reviews & Comments of Disable Google Search Text Highlights chrome extension

This extension fixes the top-level search result links, but not the "People Also Ask" links. I wrote this little Javascript which removes the text highlighting from ALL links, even if they appear after the initial page load. Just add the script to Tampermonkey or Styler for Google.com. /* Remove text highlighting from Google search result links */ var it=0; function f(){ if(it==0||document.hasFocus()){ it++; for(var a of document.querySelectorAll('a[href]')){ var i=a.href.indexOf('#:~:text='); if(i>0)a.href=a.href.substr(0,i); } } } $(document).ready(function(){var iv=setInterval(f,500);});

Thank you. I am in a graduate program and have to do key word searches every week. it is very annoying to pull up a primary source and have highlighting for what google "thinks" I am looking for.

Seems to work. The highlighting feature is hot garbage and it's infuriating that a. google thought it was a good idea, and b. there's no native way to disable it.

It's utterly ridiculous that we need an extension to disable this "feature". For me this was the straw that broke the camel's back; I'm switching back to Firefox as my default browser. Having one company control so much of my browsing experience has surpassed the point of being helpful now that Google is trying so hard to repeat Microsoft's abuse of IE's dominance in the 90s. However I still need Chrome for work so I'm very thankful that this extension exists, thank you!!

Fantastic! It was very frustrating scrolling all the way up an article to read the whole thing when constantly being shown the highlighted section. It makes me wonder if they are just trying to discourage people from actually researching things properly anymore...?

You are my saviour. You are the best. A genius. No more annoying scrolling to a paragraph I'm not even interested in.

Fantastic extension to remove an awful feature of chrome. Thanks chrome but I can locate the first sentence of a wikipedia article all on my own.

I have never once found the highlighting feature anything but annoying. I'd love to know what data Google used to decide it was a good feature. This extension works perfectly for me. Best part is it's open-source, so if it ever breaks we can a) complain to the dev, or b) just fork it and fix it ourselves.

Awesome app. Slows down Google's backwards death march to undo progress.

Perfect. Fixes a terrible idea. Thanks.

Thank you! Works great!

Works!

I absolutely love this. I can actually work in chrome again.Is there any way i can support this. Send money/ beer/ something ?

The extension does exactly what it should, it's just a shame that Google is incompetent enough that it is needed.

Fk google's prescriptivism and "knowing whats best", even removing the flag to disable this. Absolutely offensive to be "talked down" by removing the option.

I sincerely appreciate the work you put into this. I also use Bing, so I forked your projected and added "bing.com" to the manifest. Feel free to use my code. https://github.com/hunter-negron/disable-google-bing-search-text-highlights

This extension is an absolute must. I actually switched away from Google and Bing entirely solely because of targetText

This extension is a complete lifesaver! Finally the contemptible, useless highlighting within the email body is gone.

Does exactly what I need and nothing extra.

Awesome! Finally get rid of the annoying URL with text highlighted

I've only tried it a little (which is why only 4/5), but it's just so nice to know that other people hate this "feature" as much as I do, and then you actually made something to fix it! Dude I could kiss you rn

Simple and works! Shame that it's apparently too tough for Google to do themselves. :P

No longer works

No longer working. :( (First URL at which I noticed this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLBPA_Baseball#:~:text=MLBPA%20Baseball%2C%20known%20in%20Japan,%2FGenesis%2C%20and%20Game%20Gear.)

THANK YOU!

everyonesdesign does what googles does not, and will not allow.

Works, doesn't require anything manual, great! Though it does leave the "#" in the URL (while deleting all the "text=" part), but that's just nitpicking I guess.

This worked fine until 8 October. It now is not working. Please update as it was fantastic until now!

Seems to work great and the source code is very minimal, so I don't have any trust issues at all. Wonderful! However, is the permission to read and change the website content on all websites really necessary? I mean, you just need the URL, right?

Thank you! Makes Chrome work like it used to, which was better.