This is what the vast majority of users will do of course. The issue people have with it is that it breaks the "social contract" of the web, which is that part

This is what the vast majority of users will do of course. The issue people have with it is that it breaks the "social contract" of the web, which is that part of the advertising income goes to the site that provided the information the answer is based on. That, by destroying that income, "overviews" (now including AI overviews, but that's not where it started) are destroying first publishers and I'm sure it'll go all the way through until Youtube is entirely destroyed as well. Of course, it does not destroy Google's income ... and it destroys the promise Google made long ago, which is to never keep users on Google platforms. Oh and to add insult to injury, want to bet Opal will force app developers into what you probably never even imaged would happen on the web? Pay-per-view. Not for a video. For a website/app.