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Re:AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks by jgord on Thursday July 24, 2025 @05:30AM (#44668746)
not to mention the mandatory cloudflare "are you human" pre-vetting page Im seeing on 15% of sites.

jesus wept.

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Re:AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks by johnisgood on Thursday July 24, 2025 @06:01AM (#44668932)
And that I often have to wait for it to automatically get through it, which it does not, requiring me to click to verify I am indeed a human. Even if I am not even using Tor or VPNs.
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Re:AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks by nathan_douglas on Thursday July 24, 2025 @11:01AM (#44671557)
Assuming that clicking to verify even works, which is shaky. On Safari, it seems to just loop me most of the time... which bums me out, since I generally don't have many issues with Safari.
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