i would have thought this was exactly the intention

Oh look, they finally found a way to make AI profitable! (It’s just scamming people again)

What are you talking about? There’s no way that Google could profit from that… /s

Google discovering that AI search may quietly steer shoppers toward higher prices is a fun twist: first search results became ads, then ads became recommendations, and now recommendations apparently have a concierge fee. At this rate, AI powered shopping just means your wallet gets the hallucination.

tenbluelinks.org solves that pesky AI problem. Load up the google web search and then use the element picker in uBO to remove the ai links on the search page and presto! Better searches and results.