How to Turn Off AI Overviews When Searching

Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't believe this works on the current AI overview rollout.

I Don’t Want To Spend My One Wild And Precious Life Dealing With Google’s AI Search https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40380639 - (1 day ago, 204 points, 215 comments)

You can change the search engine URL in your browser or use an extension.

Bye Bye, AI: How to block Google's annoying AI overviews and just get search results - https://www.tomshardware.com/software/google-chrome/bye-bye-...

Google’s AI Overviews Are Here, Whether You Want Them or Not - https://archive.is/mFBUm

This support article is also from March, I think this is just applicable to Google Labs.

I don't even have an option for "Labs" as the instructions indicate

I'm thankfully not seeing AI overviews on mobile firefox... is this just a desktop thing, just a chrome thing?

Ok, which means you need to stay logged in iiuc, which is a huge thing Google also wants

Answer: use a different search engine.

Google seems to be anxious.