The complaint accuses Google of “misusing web content for Google's AI Overviews in Google Search, which have caused, and continue to cause, significant harm to publishers, including news publishers in the form of traffic, readership and revenue loss.”
You can also avoid using the internet entirely. I personally reference my 30 volume encyclopedia collection rather than risk seeing an ad or an internet service being anything less than perfect.
Just came here to say you can block them with ublock origin, tho the CSS selector might change in the future, now just filter this in UBO:
www.google.com##.hdzaWe
There’s also a bunch of addons that do the same, if you can’t have ubo for some reason
You can also not use Google. I use duckduckgo and they let you turn off AI overview.
You can also avoid using the internet entirely. I personally reference my 30 volume encyclopedia collection rather than risk seeing an ad or an internet service being anything less than perfect.
That’s not as clever as you think it is.