AI blocker

[gusko]

I have just started to use Hide AI Overviews and for me it makes browsing a less annoying .
Anyone else use one?

Its nice not to have the first search result being an AI answer to something I didnt ask for ,

[cobra kid]

I just look further down the screen and it does the same job.

[gusko]

Nope it's more than that, maybe ask AI for the answer

[Blib]

gusko said:

I have just started to use Hide AI Overviews and for me it makes browsing a less annoying .
Anyone else use one?

Its nice not to have the first search result being an AI answer to something I didnt ask for ,

I pasted your post into ChatGPT.

ChatGPT said:

Yeah, you’re definitely not alone in that. A lot of people find AI Overviews more distracting than helpful, especially when they’re shoved in front of the actual links you were trying to get to in the first place.

Common reasons people like hiding them:

They answer a different question than the one you had in mind

They take up a ton of screen space before any real results

You still end up scrolling to verify the sources anyway

They can feel like noise when you already know what you’re looking for


For quick fact-finding they can be okay, but for browsing, research, or troubleshooting, many folks prefer raw search results without an AI “guess” at intent.

You’re basically reclaiming search back to:

> query → links → your own judgment



Out of curiosity (no need to answer if you don’t want to): are you mostly searching for technical stuff, shopping, news, or just general browsing? That tends to affect how annoying the AI blocks feel.

HTH.

[Griffith4ever]

cobra kid said:

I just look further down the screen and it does the same job.

There is always one.

OP - I found a way to modify right click searches so they are AI free. You'll of course have to google how to do it. Its a little tweak in Chrome.

And yes, I'm with you. On a laptop the AI result can often take up the whole screen before you can see any actual results, and its even worse on phones. It also doesn't help if you are in a rush and think you are reading something real, only to realise it's made up AI st.

[grumbledoak]

This is rather like avoiding search engines and going to the library would have been, twenty years ago.

Simply asking an AI will replace Google. Already has replaced Stack Overflow.

[chris1roll]

https://tedium.co/2024/05/17/google-web-search-mak...

There are probably extensions to do it by default on your chosen browser.

[Griffith4ever]

grumbledoak said:

This is rather like avoiding search engines and going to the library would have been, twenty years ago.

Simply asking an AI will replace Google. Already has replaced Stack Overflow.

What? you are telling me search engines were almost almost wrong 20 years ago? because that's the reason a lot of us are disable AI results on google - they are wrong an awful lot of the time, and the real danger is because they are right a lot of the time, people just take what they say as correct all the time.

Seriously, most of the results it comes up with are laughably wrong. So much so, after a while I disabled it as it's just "noise" - I want to see indexed/crawled results, not guesses based on who posted the most.

Almost all of the YT links it embeds with it's answers are of videos that are talking about something else entirely, but, are on a similar vein.

AI isn't good enough yet.

OP wan't to remove it, lets help him, not mock him/me with cheap angry Simpson memes.

Edited by Griffith4ever on Saturday 20th December 13:39

[Griffith4ever]

gusko said:

I have just started to use Hide AI Overviews and for me it makes browsing a less annoying .
Anyone else use one?

Its nice not to have the first search result being an AI answer to something I didnt ask for ,

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hide-google-ai-overviews/neibhohkbmfjninidnaoacabkjonbahn?hl=en

"hide annoying Google AI Overviews.

This browser extension is designed to enhance your browsing experience by removing AI-generated overviews from Google search results. Recognizing that not all users appreciate the AI-powered summaries and insights which can clutter search results, this extension offers a clean, streamlined interface that focuses solely on traditional results, allowing you to easily turn off AI Overviews.
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[WrekinCrew]

Just add &udm=14 to your Google search string. Firefox lets you do this automatically and I'd assume other browsers do too.

[Riley Blue]

They do; explained in detail here: https://tenbluelinks.org

It works in Opera too (my browser of choice).

[spikeyhead]

I've just added the chrome extension, and now get the several links with the right answer to something that AI gave completely the wrong answer to when I searched earlier

[Terminator X]

gusko said:

I have just started to use Hide AI Overviews and for me it makes browsing a less annoying .
Anyone else use one?

Its nice not to have the first search result being an AI answer to something I didnt ask for ,

Sounds a great idea. I find all the AI intrusion painfully annoying. Also everything seems to run so slow now, I assume AI running in the background.

TX.