how to disable google ai overviews using uBlock Origin
2024-10-26
update 2026-02-03
recently i have been made aware of a much more thorough blocklist by @stevoisiak. it is much more thorough and blocks ai features more comprehensively, on google search, google platforms, and other platforms aside from google. it is also more freqeuntly updated. i’m keeping this up because these are my rules. but i recommend you go look at stevo’s genai blocklist!
- Open up the uBlock Origin extension settings.
- Click on the “My Filters” tab.
- Click on the large text box. Paste in the following as new lines at the bottom of the text box:
www.google.com##[data-al="AI overview is ready"]
www.google.com##[data-aquarium]
www.google.com##[data-subtree="mfc"]remarks
- this might break if google changes how they build this feature. this rule relies on the ai overview feature having a certain html attribute with a human-readable name, unique only to that feature.
- other sites suggest rules that are more brittle, e.g. this reddit post. those rules rely on the feature having a certain CSS class, but those are automatically generated and not intended to be stable.
- other google information/summary cards won’t be blocked by this rule.