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“Just give me the f***ing links!”—Cursing disables Google’s AI overviews (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 74 points 5 days ago (3 children)

That used to be how you would get past voice response systems and get to an operator quickly as well: just say "fuck", once, clearly.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

Most of the systems where this worked did it for any unrecognized words.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

This is true and FedEx absolutely used it. Was going through their circular automated phone system saying "Agent" and such until I started cursing. Then, I was finally directed to a person. Not sure if it still works these days though...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Mashing 0 repeatedly works well.