ExtLab Hide AI: Hide AI Overviews on Google

Hide AI Overviews on Google Search with one switch. A guard keeps real results on the page.

ExtLab Hide AI is a Chrome extension to hide Google AI Overviews and turn off AI Overview answers in your search results. Install it and plain results are back, on every Google Search domain, with no account. Google changes its page often, so this extension looks for several independent signals, and it checks every block before hiding it. FREE • Hide AI Overviews on every Google Search domain • One-click pause: one large switch turns everything off and on, with no reload • A small "AI Overview hidden · Show" note in the corner of the window, which reveals it for that search • A local count of overviews hidden, with a reading time labelled as an estimate • Full light and dark themes that follow your system, and a note that matches Google's theme PRO • Hide the AI Mode tab and button • Hide People also ask, with its own switch • Hide Discussions and forums, with its own switch • Web results only: every search opens in Google's Web view, with links only • Exceptions: a list of words or phrases where AI stays Pro is a yearly license from Gumroad for 9 USD per year. A 7-day free trial starts from the extension. HOW IT KEEPS WORKING • It finds a block by its structure, and by its label in more than 30 languages. If one signal changes, the others can still find it. • A stylesheet applies before the first paint, so a known block does not flash. • Detection rules can be updated within a day, with no extension update. They are data only: selectors and words, never code. If an update is not valid, the extension keeps the rules it shipped with. HOW IT PROTECTS YOUR RESULTS • Every block passes a guard before it is hidden. A block that holds an organic result, or a large part of the results list, stays on the page. • A result with a title such as "AI Overview" is not treated as an AI block. GOOD TO KNOW • In Opera, turn on "Allow access to search page results" in the details of the extension. • Show applies to one search. A new search or a reload hides the overview again. • Web results only starts on a search you make. A link inside Google's page, such as the All tab, still works. • It works on Google Search only. • Google can change its page at any time, so a change may need a rule update. PERMISSIONS • storage: saves your settings, exceptions and the local count • alarms: runs one daily check of your license and of the detection rules Site access: the search and home pages of Google Search domains. Chrome has no wildcard for a country domain, so each domain is listed. The extension runs on no other site. DATA ExtLab Hide AI never sends your search queries, URLs, page text or exceptions. It reads the results page on your device. It sends only this to api.extlab.app: • License checks: your license key and a random install id, on activation and once a day. No key, no check. • Daily fetch of the detection rules: the random install id. • Usage statistics: install, update and a daily heartbeat, with the random install id, version, language and whether Pro is active. You can turn these off in the options page. • Error reports: error text with URLs and file paths removed. The same switch turns these off. • Rule health: if the rules seem broken, a fixed code and three counters, at most once a week. The same switch turns this off. Settings and exceptions sync through your Chrome profile, between your own browsers. Privacy policy: https://extlab.app/ext/extlab-hide-ai/privacy Not affiliated with Google. Google is a trademark of Google LLC.