Block Google's AI Overviews at the Network Layer, Not the DOM

Google puts an AI Overview at the top of most search results now, and a lot of people would rather it didn't. So there's a whole shelf of Chrome extensions that remove it. Almost all of them work the same way, and I think that way is a mistake. The default move is DOM-hiding: inject a content script, wait for the AI Overview panel to render, find it by class name or attribute, and set display: none. It's the first thing anyone reaches for, and it works — until it doesn't. The problems are all ba