AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks

Re:AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks by SoftTalker on Thursday July 24, 2025 @04:20PM (#44675561)

I do subscribe so I don't see ads. My complaints with YouTube are: I don't want "Shorts" in my suggestions, and yes they recently added the option to remove them but it's only temporary. They always come back and I always say "don't show me this" and they say "got it, we won't show you Shorts anymore" but in a few weeks they always come back. Do they think I forgot?

And they have some kind of little games now, which I don't have any interest in, but they have no option to remove them from my suggestions.

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Re:AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks by ClimaxGravely on Thursday July 24, 2025 @08:12PM (#44677909)

For me the text has changed from "don't show me this" to "show less of this" and they come back about once a week now. I also have no option to remove them from the subscriptions feed.

I think a similar thing is happening with their crappy games too. They keep coming back (the games still say "don't show me this" though).

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