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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?

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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.
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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.
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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?
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Re:AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks by fsflover on Monday July 28, 2025 @12:12PM (#44712255)
Librem 5 is my daily driver, buy I'll just give links to good, extensive reviews:

https://forums.puri.sm/t/nine-months-librem-5-as-my-only-pho...

https://forums.puri.sm/t/a-l5-review-1-week-to-my-ready-to-s...

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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...
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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.
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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 :)

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