Bye Bye, Google AI: Turn off Google AI Overviews, Discussions and Ads icon

Bye Bye, Google AI: Turn off Google AI Overviews, Discussions and Ads

by geekinchief

v2.11 Updated Mar 5, 2026 175KiB
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Description

Don't like the new Google AI overviews appearing in your search results? Perhaps you don't like the discussions section or the shopping blocks or even the sponsored links? This extension lets you hide them. It simply uses CSS to set those areas of the page to be hidden (display="none"). AI overviews are hidden by default but the options menu lets you choose what else you might want to hide: Videos, Discussion blocks, shopping blocks, "readers also ask" and sponsored blocks are also available to hide. Note that, if Google changes its CSS, we'll have to update the extension to keep pace. You can also search the Google web results tab from your address bar by hitting w + space and then entering your query. Version 2.11: Adds Croatian language support. Version 2.1: Adds new "What people are saying" section as an option. Version 2.0: Eliminates new mid-page (after the first result) AI Overviews Version 1.8: Fixes bug where AI overviews that appeared in the middle of the page were not being blocked. Version 1.5: Adds support for Danish, Portuguese and Dutch. Fixes bug where blocking video sometimes blocked other blocks on People pages. Version 1.4: Adds support for 16 languages including English, French, German, Spanish, Korean, Japanese, Mandarin (Trad + Simplified), Arabic, Hebrew, Urdu, Hindi, Thai, Greek, Italian, Polish and Russian.
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Reviews (48 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2026-03-27
Maryam Al-Thani

unfortunately, only hides the AI and doesn't block the search so the effect is the same :((((

★☆☆☆☆2026-02-18
Ty

Does not work.

★☆☆☆☆2026-01-28
a.t.

The tool hides the ai overview from the google search, but it doesn't bring back what the ai overview replaced: the featured snippet (the box containing info about the search that appeared before ai overviews were a thing). This is the main reason why I'm searching for an ai remover in the first place. Additionally, I'm pretty sure google still *generates* the overview, and the extension only hides it. So, if environmental impact is a concern, this would not be for you.

★☆☆☆☆2026-01-14
Tristan Grenier

I hate this because Google AI was my dog

★☆☆☆☆2026-01-10
IBRAHIM

Doesn't work on Opera GX

★☆☆☆☆2026-01-02
Adrian

does not work

★☆☆☆☆2025-12-08
Kernius Gurskas

I don't know, maybe I am doing something wrong on my end but it doesn't work for me

★☆☆☆☆2025-10-20
Keith Nelson

This broke Google Shopping search. Yuck.

★☆☆☆☆2025-10-08
druout1944

way too complicated

★☆☆☆☆2025-10-02
Todd B.

I tried everything. I followed all of the instructions carefully and it simply would not work for me.

★☆☆☆☆2025-09-26
darkracer125

does not fkn work

★☆☆☆☆2025-09-24
Dd Promto

Doesn't work anymore

★☆☆☆☆2025-08-04
Starigniter

It's simple: it's not working.

★☆☆☆☆2025-07-31
Exadeus Kreuz

Doesn't work

★☆☆☆☆2025-07-16
Даврон Мухтаров

not work

★☆☆☆☆2025-07-04
Mikkel Gede Hansen

Not working. English, Denmark. Brave w/ Google chrome SE.

★☆☆☆☆2025-06-25
Justice Henry

didn't work

★☆☆☆☆2025-06-10
Pavel Formánek

Not working at all :( (maybe Im not at English Google?)

★☆☆☆☆2025-06-09
Joseph Seed

Fix it because AI will go through it also Youtube is being very aggressive to adblockers so clearly they're anti-consumerism now

★☆☆☆☆2025-06-08
Oliver C

It worked for the past month but today I did a search and still saw an AI overview, just not as the first result. How cheap if it only works when the AI overview is the first result.

★☆☆☆☆2025-05-26
D M

doesnt works

★☆☆☆☆2025-05-21
Sofie Georgiou

Not working.

★☆☆☆☆2025-05-20
Stratos Fair

doesn't work :(

★☆☆☆☆2025-05-17
Mehdi Mhenni

Why doesn't work ?!

★☆☆☆☆2025-05-04
Brennan Armacost

This doesn't work at all. I searched for Adam Duritz in Google, to see how it looks before. Installed the extension and closed the browser, and came back, and searched for Adam Duritz in Google again, and everything looks exactly the same. I usually use DuckDuckGo, but lately that has not been helpful at all, so I have been using Google Search more and more frequently. Strangely, the AI overview is saying nothing about Adam Duritz being Jewish. But AI isn't known for its truthfulness, so not entirely surprising. I guess I will have to erase the extension, since it didn't do anything.

★☆☆☆☆2025-04-21
Tomasz Kowalczyk

Does not work as of 21.04.2025, freshly after updating the browser (135.0.7049.96).

★☆☆☆☆2025-03-30
Marvin Bertram

Does not work

★☆☆☆☆2025-03-21
Neil Furgusson (Wolves Hero)

Don't worked didn't block AI Overviews, Outdated last updated June 2024

★☆☆☆☆2025-02-11
GhastDude589

Doesn't work

★☆☆☆☆2025-01-06
Asif Khan

Doesn't work.

★☆☆☆☆2024-11-17
while being jezebel

Doesn't work at all; does read all your data. Have reported it.

★☆☆☆☆2024-10-29
thegees

hate to do ya with the star but like the other extension it just doesn't work on opera gx

★☆☆☆☆2024-10-23
Nathan Comstock

The extension sometimes causes all Google search results to disappear. Disabling the extension immediately fixes this.

★☆☆☆☆2024-09-20
brasil paralelw

nope, didn't work

★★☆☆☆2025-08-13
Thomas Khos

This trash also doesn't work 100% the time, just sometimes

★★☆☆☆2025-07-24
Jérémie Dunn

Great idea but does NOT work as of july 2025

★★☆☆☆2024-06-16
Diego A Secas

it doesn't work for me

★★★☆☆2026-03-13
Aminu Abdul

it works. after one second showing AI overview.

★★★☆☆2026-02-20
Mads134

Honestly the AI overview still pops up for a second and then disappears, so the damage is already done. However the 'w + spacebar' shortcut makes this worthwhile to me. Having that search using only the web tab is well worth it.

★★★☆☆2026-02-19
Anton Luka Šijanec

Good idea, but doesn't work on Kiwi Browser.

★★★☆☆2026-02-13
inukoinu

i love this, it works perfectly on chrome but not on opera gx. why is that? could you (the dev) please make a workaround for this?

★★★☆☆2025-11-07
Michael T

Does not remove *AI Mode* from the search bar

★★★☆☆2025-10-19
Ivana Sklárová

It doesnt work for me - using this in opera

★★★☆☆2025-09-11
100% Tigger

Almost perfect but the AI overview shows up for a second and is then removed. That's almost as annoying.

★★★☆☆2025-07-11
Spectral Vulpine

Hides main AI overview but does not hide things like "People also ask" section, which is an advertised feature

★★★☆☆2025-04-19
Todd Wintering

I already use Google's Web Tab with w + space for something else. I don't know why this extension hijacked my keyboard shortcuts. There's a lot to like about this extension, but I had to uninstall it. It shouldn't override user defined shortcuts without any option or warning.

★★★☆☆2025-03-30
Alisdair Calder McGregor

Google have broken something that this AddOn relied on, so at the moment it doesn't work. Hopefully the author will fix it soon so that the slop becomes invisible again

★★★☆☆2024-05-29
koitsu

Where's the source? I ask because I hope this is not blocking dynamically-generated-at-static-content-build-time CSS class names like GcKpu -- the Options/Settings imply it may be, but I would like to see for myself. Edit: put it up on GitHub, I'm not going to Email you. Don't be weird!

Permissions (1)

Permissions

storage Can store data locally in your browser

Details

Version 2.11
Updated Mar 5, 2026
Size 175KiB
First Seen Mar 27, 2026