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The single thing I hate the most?

Showing search results immediately, while the real search is happening in the background. I see what I want, click it, and it immediately changes to be something else.

I get the need to give users instant feedback, but not at the expense of user experience.

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Somehow google even with all their money and rockstar developers still does this to me in search results. There's no built-in option I've found to remove the 'People also search for' popup that pushes all the content I was just about to click on after navigating back to the search results page. I had to make a filter rule instead.

Care to explain how to apply that filter rule?

In ublock origin add a line in "My Filters" for:

www.google.com##[id^=ed_]

I only created this today so I'm unsure if the ids change over time or if people get different ids for sections but it's been solid so far.

Oh this is cool! Have been using ublock for a while and didn't know you could use it to block particularly annoying things like this. Thanks a bunch!

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