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Google is cannibalizing the web to feed AI
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this post was submitted on 25 May 2026
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For what it's worth i've been using them for like a year and I clear my cookies often and never got this AI overview thingy you're talking about. I actually have no clue how it even looks like.
That's A-B testing. Another evil gas lighting dystopian thing that has got people questioning their sanity. Even something as basic as how a website's UI behaves has to be hidden behind some secret "innovative" algorithm that "optimizes our engagement."