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showcaseearth on July 24, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks

This is usually okay... what's not okay is that usually this narrative is broken up by ads, a constantly changing layout as you scroll, and eventually jumping so many times you can't resume scrolling, then eventually crashing because too many trackers/ads/etc overwhelmed the browser (on mobile).

jabjq on July 24, 2025 [–]

No, it's not okay. I used google to look for a brownie recipe; I want a brownie recipe and nothing else.

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