Brb, yelling obscenities at my work computer to see if Copilot will uninstall itself
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More recently, some Google users have noticed that appending the string "-ai" to a search (without quotes) seems to also turn off AI Overviews in the results.
Not as much fun, but good to know.
There’s a bit of text you can add to the google search to have it exclude Gemini.
This site does it for you:
I did a search in this, then copied the url result into my browser settings replacing my search word with %s. I haven’t seen the AI results since
Is ublock origin blocking Google's AI? Because I often use google along side searxng and I swear to god I haven't seen it once (and hope to not see it)
I think I added the Google summary section to a ublock rule years ago and I think Google may have reused that or I just added the first ai response section I saw to a new rule awhile ago because I also didn't see them frequently/at all
Not for me it isnt