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.