# Can I disable the built-in citation for some requests?

**URL:** <https://community.perplexity.ai/t/can-i-disable-the-built-in-citation-for-some-requests/134>\
**Category:** Bug Reports\
**Created:** [May 15, 2025, 12:28am UTC](https://community.perplexity.ai/t/can-i-disable-the-built-in-citation-for-some-requests/134 "2025-05-15T00:28:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![vikvang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/67e7ee/32.png) [@vikvang](https://community.perplexity.ai/u/vikvang)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 12:28am UTC](https://community.perplexity.ai/t/can-i-disable-the-built-in-citation-for-some-requests/134/1 "2025-05-15T00:28:05Z")

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It’s unnecessary for my service to enable the citation feature all the time, so I’m wondering if it’s possible to disable it by a slight tweak?

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**Author:** ![vikvang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/67e7ee/32.png) [@vikvang](https://community.perplexity.ai/u/vikvang)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 12:28am UTC](https://community.perplexity.ai/t/can-i-disable-the-built-in-citation-for-some-requests/134/2 "2025-05-15T00:28:07Z")

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I am also interested in the method to disable quotes.

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**Author:** ![vikvang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/67e7ee/32.png) [@vikvang](https://community.perplexity.ai/u/vikvang)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 12:28am UTC](https://community.perplexity.ai/t/can-i-disable-the-built-in-citation-for-some-requests/134/3 "2025-05-15T00:28:09Z")

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If you are tier-3, one option might be to set the search\_domain\_filter to a non-existing domain: `"search_domain_filter": ["thisdomainisunlikelytoexist1234432.com"]`.

Yes, it’s a hack.