Best Extension to Block AI Summaries in Google Search
Patrick Bushe · May 1, 2026
AI summaries are part of Google's own results page, so ad blockers usually leave them alone. Patrick Bushe's Search Cleaner hides them: its "AI Overview" switch is on as soon as you install it, and it finds the box by its heading on google.com search pages. It only hides the box; Google still generates it, and you may see it for a moment before it disappears. Google has no setting to turn AI Overviews off, though google's own "Web" filter, under the search box or in its More menu, also shows plain links with no AI Overview.
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