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Re:AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks by quectophoton on Thursday July 24, 2025 @07:20AM (#44669392)
For those who want to experience it: https://how-i-experience-web-today.com/

The only inaccurate thing of that meme page is that you only need to uncheck 5 cookie "partners", when in reality there should be at least a few hundred.

Re:AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks by Jenk on Thursday July 24, 2025 @07:34AM (#44669486)

    document.querySelectorAll("[type='checkbox']").forEach(c => c.checked = undefined)
Adjust the selector as neccessary, sometimes I'll use `#id-of-cookie-banner [type='checkbox']`

Probably useless for mobile though, unless you can punch it in the omnibar with `javascript:` prefix

Re:AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks by lightbulbish on Thursday July 24, 2025 @09:37AM (#44670531)
that was great, thanks for the laugh.
Re:AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks by marcosdumay on Thursday July 24, 2025 @09:50AM (#44670673)
The site has a few other issues... The ads contrast with the content instead of blending in; there are only 2 ads inline with the content, and one is clearly an easy to ignore banner; all the cookie "partners" could be disabled, there should be 2 or 3 that you can't change.
Re:AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks by tempodox on Thursday July 24, 2025 @11:03AM (#44671581)
And you get a laundry list of several hundred switches that you have to manually switch off to deny their “legitimate interests”.
Re:AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks by zahlman on Thursday July 24, 2025 @11:38AM (#44672033)
The web page source seems full of Easter eggs and I'm not sure how intentional that is. The generic labels and descriptions of content as "useless" make sense, but then I noticed things like multiple redundant </ul> tags and this script comment:

  src: "https://js.monitor.azure.com/scripts/b/ai.2.min.js", // The SDK URL Source
  crossOrigin: "anonymous", // When supplied this will add the provided value as the cross origin attribute on the script tag
which is part of configuration for some minified/obfuscated driver....

Anyway, is it really not even possible to set up things like NoScript and uBlock Origin on mobile?

Re:AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks by jdiff on Thursday July 24, 2025 @12:01PM (#44672338)
Firefox for Android can handle uBlock Origin, probably NoScript as well. It's the one thing keeping me on Android at this point.
Re:AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks by fsflover on Friday July 25, 2025 @03:54AM (#44680753)
I run desktop Firefox on my GNU/Linux phone, so I could leave Android behind.
Re:AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks by 1718627440 on Monday July 28, 2025 @04:37AM (#44708652)
Which phone are you using? How is your experience?
Re:AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks by fsflover on Monday July 28, 2025 @12:12PM (#44712255)
Re:AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks by happyraul on Saturday July 26, 2025 @01:28AM (#44691588)
Are you saying on iOS there is no way to browse the Internet without an ad blocker? Maybe I should get an iPhone to stop spending time on my phone...
Re:AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks by jdiff on Saturday July 26, 2025 @10:39PM (#44698491)
Can't answer that authoritatively since I don't know if there's something iOS-specific, but Firefox is the only browser on Android that lets you have uBlock Origin. And I know that Firefox on iOS doesn't.
Re:AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks by cobbaut on Friday July 25, 2025 @08:15AM (#44682278)
> The web page source seems full of Easter eggs

Indeed... click the video play button :)

Re:AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks by showcaseearth on Thursday July 24, 2025 @11:58AM (#44672292)
omg, this is a gem
Re:AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks by Workaccount2 on Thursday July 24, 2025 @12:08PM (#44672415)
Unfortunately it only has ~3 domains running JS on it's example site.

I needs to have 15+ to really capture that modern web experience.