how to disable google gemini ai overviews using uBlock Origin

2024-10-26 04:24

1. Open up the uBlock Origin extension settings.
2. Click on the “My Filters” tab.
3. Click on the large text box. Paste in the following as new lines at the bottom of the text box:

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.

See also

• Turn off Safari Summaries on iOS.