Disable Google Search Text Highlights

Good extension, b.A.A.d company. Google is sadly killing this off with MV3.

It needed a restart to work, but now it's doing what it says. 5 stars for solving a horrible idea

Best extension ever created, obviously Google doesn't understand what UX is and is just throwing garbage at us non stop

Does not seem to be removing the highlights in the inital search, does this need an update?

thanks very good you solved my headache about this google fault I LOVE YOU😘

It's such a shame that tech companies want to determine that you need something instead of giving you the option. Thank you for this extension!

Does the job it says and works great. It's really just a shame this was needed instead of Google listening to its users.

At last!!

This extension stopped working for me. It's installed and on, but it's no longer doing its job. Google is the king of annoyance thought to be convenience, without the ability to disable their B.S. May be time to switch search engines.

I came to this extension late, but I was glad to have found it. That said, it stopped doing what it says on the tin about a month ago, and I'm having to deal with these infuriating highlights constantly again, and it's like this extension isn't even installed on my browser. Very frustrating. I'm hoping whoever developed this extension can figure out a work-around, because quite frankly it's a stroke of genius (when it works)!

I came to this extension late, but I was glad to have found it. That said, it stopped doing what it says on the tin about a month ago, and I'm having to deal with these infuriating highlights constantly again, and it's like this extension isn't even installed on my browser. Very frustrating. I'm hoping whoever developed this extension can figure out a work-around, because quite frankly it's a stroke of genius (when it works)!

Worked consistently as described until the past month or so and then the highlights came back everywhere in Gmail. Tried removing and adding the extension to Chrome again, changing extension permissions/settings, etc... Extension still doesn't seem to be working at all for me now.

Worked consistently as described until the past month or so and then the highlights came back everywhere in Gmail. Tried removing and adding the extension to Chrome again, changing extension permissions/settings, etc... Extension still doesn't seem to be working at all for me now.

Is it possible to remove blue text highlights from snippet?

Is it possible to remove blue text highlights from snippet?

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);});

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 for this very useful extension!

Thank you for this very useful extension!

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.

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.

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!!

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...?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Perfect. Fixes a terrible idea. Thanks.

Perfect. Fixes a terrible idea. Thanks.

Thank you! Works great!

Thank you! Works great!

Works!

Works!

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

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.

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.

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