I have tried to disable Leo AI but the icon is in the top right hand corner and I’m disgusted that I have AI software on my computer. I want it expunged from the browser completely.
brave://settings/appearance → Customise your toolbar should have an option to remove Leo from there, if that’s what you’re looking for?
Or if it’s the sidebar then brave://settings/leo-ai → Show Leo icon in the sidebar
I appreciate your reply but unfortunately it is not.
I want this wretched filth gored from the browser. It’s still in settings, it’s still in the drop down menu, it’s still there. I want it purged.
Addition, I just opened another tab and brave talk is there. I’m seething…
Use another browser.
@Kaynetime as @ste states, you can disable the Leo icon from displaying the toolbar in the Customize your toolbar menu or right-click the icon and select Hide.
While doing this will not remove it from the Settings entirely, it will ensure that you do not have to interact with it anyway.
If you want to fully remove all traces of the 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
Enjoy Homelessness……
Thank you for taking the time to reply, I appreciate you.
As I have replied to STE I’ve figure out how to remove the disgusting icon and that the malware remines.
I have come across the solution you have offered to remove the feature however I have been struggling to locate my Local Group Policy Editor. Searching online hasn’t helped, tutorials are non existent, it’s a non fictional solution at this point in time.
While I appreciate the apology I don’t understand how you can support AI at this point in it’s catastrophe. From the start the promise was economic disaster, the execution of AI has poisoned the air and water supply, raising power costs, PC building is dying, it’s just the human suffering industry at this point.
Then we have the real humans that made AI, not the the CEOs but the engineers and influencers that support it. They will either be treated like subprime lenders in 2009 or they’ll loose everything in a Black Thursday Event. People will die.
The worse part is, LLMs can be useful but not in commercial setting. The medical and chemical engineering fields have had huge leaps and bounds thanks to LLMs but the unmitigated disaster caused by commercial LLMs are going to poison the well. Not only with public trust but even now no one wants them in their home town and if things continue on course and legal options then illegal options will be taken, people are going to get hurt.
I understand to you that I probably sound dumb and hysterical, I get that what I’m saying is so foreign to you that it can’t be real, that the soothsaying is next level. Please, open your echo chamber just a little bit. Governments are preparing for an AI induced great depression, major financial institutions are openly calling it a bubble, people are getting sick, this is real and verifiable. With the most damning statement on AI being from Geoffrey Hinton, the godfather of ai, claiming that current AI usage will risk human extinction.
So, when you try and defend AI remember that, to regular people, you are protecting economic despair at best.
Unfortunately if you want to use Brave you will have to deal with it as per instructions above or use another browser.
As far as I am aware Librefox and Vivaldi are AI less at this stage.
How to Open the Local Group Policy Editor in Windows 10 [and Windows 11]
‘https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/79976-open-local-group-policy-editor-windows-10-a.html’
Excerpts:
The Local Group Policy Editor is only available in the Windows 10 Pro , Enterprise , and Education editions.
This tutorial will show you different ways on how to open the Local Group Policy Editor in Windows 10 and Windows 11 .
MacOS users, without Brave Browser running, you may use the following command in a Terminal.app window: defaults write com.brave.Browser BraveAIChatEnabled -bool false and then Exit / Quit everything and Restart your Mac. In a Brave Browser New Window, go to brave://policy where you should see:
Does Librefox or Vivaldi have strong add block built in?
Thank you for addressing the lack of information on how to access the group policy editor. While I am on windows 11 at this point in time, I’m currently in the process of moving to Linux. Unfortunately the tutorial you offered doesn’t work on windows 11. The closest one that worked was “use the search bar” which I already had and got a fucking copilot dump which only increased my rage. Tried it again to be thorough and instead the top result was a downloadable paid service. Is paying to get rid of this malware really necessary? This is not helping with the rage thing.
Librefox is an actively maintained fork of Firefox and generally gets good feedback including from tec specialists who comment in The Register.
I adopted it to replace Firefox when FF basically said they were going to start potentially monetising users info. So simplistically yes.
Vivaldi I know less about but was always lower down my list of choices so from memory probably less private than Brave/Librefox/Firefox/Waterfox at the time but you should do your own research.
I’m looking for LibreFox and I’m only finding a Github and something called “Librewolf” that advertises itself as you described LibreFox.
Sorry my bad. I keep calling it Librefox because of Firefox but it is infact Librewolf……
It updates with everything else on my Mint install.
How are you liking mint? That’s the one I was considering switching to.
I’m confused about the problem here – in Windows 11, click in the search bar and type Group Policy:
Please confirm that you can find this and if so, I can guide you through the rest. Additionally, when you say
Can you please be more specific? Where did it appear? In the toolbar? Or on the Search page when using Brave Search? Or somewhere else?