Can I or can't I permanently remove AI from Brave? If I can't, I'm leaving

[Saoiray]

@loveprivacy can you confirm with me what you’re seeing and where? And this is indeed on Android?

I mean, how much is it Leo that you’re talking about compared to Brave Search?

For example, below:

This would be where Ask Leo appears as search suggestion

If you turn off the autocomplete part in Leo settings, it no longer shoes Ask Leo

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If you want Leo removed from the hamburger menu, you can do that by choosing the customize menu option that’s available in the newer update:

Once you click the button, it shows you toggles of everything you can enable or disable.

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And if you just don’t want to see it anywhere, not even to be listed under Settings, then you have to disable the Brave AI Chat in brave://flags

At which point Leo isn’t going to be listed anywhere:

[Saoiray]

But if you’re talking about Brave Search (search.brave.com) then that’s something different entirely.

For that, you can try to disable it in Brave Search settings,

But it doesn’t automatically disable it in its entirety and it will still answer on occasion.

So for this, the better way is to go to Settings → Brave Shields & Privacy → Content Filtering → Turn on the toggle for Anti-AI Search Filters

Once this is enabled, you won’t see Search AI answer anymore and the buttons won’t be on the search box either

[loveprivacy]

Thanks for the customize menu instructions. I customized, but that’s not helping with this problem. (So hard to respond when I can’t read your posts at the same time. Hard to even find responses when I click on site notif. Also wish topics would show posts beginning with most recent.) Anyway, that first picture does not look like mine. The Leo icon is on the search bar, and this is weird: I tested it on one tab, clicking the search symbol and not the diamond, and for once, it gave me normal results. Then I opened a new tab and tested again and it gave me leo results. I will answer your other posts next, if/when I can find them.

[loveprivacy]

You see, I’m not interested in “Warning: Experimental features ahead…”

[loveprivacy]

Yeah, this is a big problem that I’ve tried to find elsewhere in the forum and came here to post about, but can’t figure out how and where to do that, even though I’ve posted before. My settings changes in Brave Search don’t stay for even a second. The best it will do is adjust location results after I change the location and the location setting reverts after that. I understand I would have to set this after I reopen the browser because I have it set to delete history after closing the tabs, but this does not stay while I’m still in the tab, not even opening a new tab. Does using VPN cause this? Brave is updated. I’m on Android and it also does this on Windows pc. Thanks for trying to help.

[GCvlcnti]

and that wouldnt solve the major subject…
THE FOCCUS on these , are , for sure, about the ENERAL USER DATA Being accessed BY NOT ONLY LEO…
I think that’s the time everyone are waking up about thing like the moment of existence where humans allow their personal camera access to companies organized like Cartels…
Please dont take my words wrong… I’m trying to be POLITE…. but the theme is kind of “extreme”… theres few words to translate whats is happening in general world…

[289wk]

Given that a Brave Browser user wishes to steer away from Brave Leo AI and Brave Search with AI assistance . . .

Brave Leo AI

In a Brave Browser New Window, go to brave://settings/appearance ← Disable Show autocomplete suggestions in address bar

In a Brave Browser New Window, go to brave://flags and Disable Brave AI Chat

In a Brave Browser New Window, go to brave://settings/leo-ai and Disable:

• Show Leo icon in the sidebar
• Show Leo in the context menu on websites

And click the Clear Leo data button.

Also, while at brave://settings/leo-ai, scroll down to Personalization and Disable Store my conversation history

If you want to fully remove all traces of the Leo component from the browser, then you’ll have to do so via Group Policy:
https://support.brave.app/hc/en-us/articles/360039248271-Group-Policy

See: ‘How do I kill Leo AI? - #11 by 289wk’

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Brave Search

In a Brave Browser New Window, go to brave://settings/clearBrowserData and using the On exit tab, Enable Browsing history and click the Save button.

In a Brave Browser New Window, go to https://search.brave.com/settings and Disable

• Answer with AI
• Discussions
• Google fallback mixing

And then click on the Brave Lion icon at the upper-left-corner area of the Brave Search Settings window. That will send the browser to the main Brave Search Engine webpage: https://search.brave.com

Modify that URL address to https://search.brave.com/?summary=0 This should disable the “normal” AI summaries. This trick unfortunately does not work with the summaries for “places”.

USE the Brave Search Engine’s search field - DO NOT USE the URL address field (some users call that the “search bar”) . . . for your search criteria.

BE CERTAIN, once you have entered your search criteria, to click on the Magnifying Glass icon. BECAUSE, a Brave Search AI assistant button might still appear very-nearby. So, the objective is all in the following screenshot:

• IMHO
• PS: Language translation/translators these days, are likely to include AI assistance

[loveprivacy]

I don’t see this Anti-AI Search Filter toggle. I left Brave Search anyway.