Real "Unpopular Opinion" hours, but a lot of the Google AI results are honestly helpful and significantly less annoying to navigate than the links they reference.

No annoying or intrusive ads or DONATE PLEASE pop-ups or demands that I give them permission to add cookies. No miles of irrelevant fluff text. No captchas or other weird security features.

This feels like a patch on a patch on a patch, given that so much of these annoyances are a consequence of aggressive AI data harvesting and Google Adsense incentives and decades of privatization championed by Silicon Valley libertarians.

But here we are, regardless. AI answers filter a lot of that crap out