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How can I disable this new 'what do you want to learn today' block at the top of the home-page?

The 3 widgets already waste a lot of space. I don't need another widget I'll never use.

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    I'd suggest just going straight to the /questions page; then you don't get any of the widgets. I don't believe there is an in-built way of disabling any of the on the (new) home page. The alternative would be use userscripts or an adblocker that supports removal of defined elements. Commented Dec 2, 2025 at 16:27
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    The 3 widgets give me some relevant info about Stack Overflow. This new block tries to move me to the AI Assistant, seems like that should be something I can disable. IMHO I shouldn't need 30 userscripts to make the home page show at least 2 questions. Commented Dec 2, 2025 at 16:30
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    Network-wide meta request for the same: Allow people to opt out of AI Assist Commented Dec 2, 2025 at 16:32
  • @Lundin - Can we update that request to allow people to opt out other people from AI assist :-) Commented Dec 2, 2025 at 17:44
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    You can get rid of it with ublock Commented Dec 2, 2025 at 18:16
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    I already haven't visited the home page in months since the last update that ruined it, so I wasn't even aware of this until I saw your post. Commented Dec 2, 2025 at 19:06
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    welp. one used to be able to hide the homepage widgets by userstyling #hide-this-if-you-want, (which as an aside, I find such a funny name for an ID- as if having given up on something). but now for some reason they don't put the homepage "widgets" in there. I'd have thought this new box would have something like #hide-this-if-you-want-2. but no. Commented Dec 2, 2025 at 21:43
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    "We don't have plans to provide toggles turn off any AI Assist components." but "We're always open to reconsidering decisions like this. Let's see how the feature is used and the feedback we get across channels.". Commented Dec 3, 2025 at 4:30
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    Easy solution using uBlock; ! Dec 3, 2025 https://stackoverflow.com stackoverflow.com###hide-this-if-you-want > .jc-space-between.d-flex stackoverflow.com##.pr48.hs1.s-textarea.flex--item.fs-body2 stackoverflow.com##.js-ask-stack-send.fc-theme-primary-100.bg-theme-secondary-400.s-btn,, And use the Questions page if you need the Ask Question button... Commented Dec 3, 2025 at 9:12
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    As if Stack Overflow is in any way a tool for learning purposes. That's some proper self-sabotage, chaos-driven learning. It should say: what do you want to research today. Commented Dec 3, 2025 at 11:03
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    I'm just going to add, if this site is going to become increasingly hostile to the point of co-opting notification tricks that I have been trained to get my attention to try to get me to use new features, then I'll just stop visiting it. Commented Dec 3, 2025 at 16:57
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    @AnonCoward don’t worry, next time when the notification goes unread you’ll receive an email. Commented Dec 3, 2025 at 17:03
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    uBlock origin can do it easily Commented Dec 3, 2025 at 17:41
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    I blocked it with the "Block Element" feature of AdBlock Plus. I had to block 3 elements: the text input box, the "By using AI Assist..." caption, and the send button. Commented Dec 12, 2025 at 20:52
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    Maybe we could write a browser extension just to automatically remove the widgets at SO that we don't like. I'm half-joking. But only halfly. Commented Dec 19, 2025 at 19:26

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I'd like to suggest that this opt-out is extended to the entirely of the AI Assist stuff, not just the box on the home page. I don't want to be getting message like this in my inbox from AI Assist.

A image showing a message from AI Assist, asking the user to start a chat with it for instance answers.

I appreciate that Stack Overflow Inc want to get on the AI bandwagon, and I'm sure there are some users that want that, however, there are plenty that don't. Users come to places like Stack Overflow for answers not written by an LLM. There's also plenty of AI Sceptics (myself included), who intentionally don't use the products out there because we don't trust the content from them (or lack the ability to verify the words they give us are true).

There's no problem with this being opt-in by default either, but allow those that aren't interested in AI, or actively don't want to deal with AI, to avoid it.

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    I am a skeptic to the point where I claim AI does not exist yet and likely won't, at least not in the public space, for a good two decades at least. It's all pseudo-AI, complex pattern matching algorithms that have zero simulated intelligence, only simulated responses. Commented Dec 4, 2025 at 11:10
  • Wasn't that inbox message a one-time announcement, not anything permanent? Commented Dec 12, 2025 at 20:54
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    I don't doubt there won't be more, @Barmar . Commented Dec 12, 2025 at 21:01

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