Google Gemini is interfering

[ludov]

I’m getting very annoying Google Gemini popups and annotations:

as I’m only getting them here, I suspect it’s a site setting or an ad that’s doing this.  If so, can it please be turned off?

 

 

Edited June 13 by ludov
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[aFrInaTi0n]

@Jim May you have a look and reach out, if needed? Thanks in advance

@ludov Since when did you observe this happening?

[ludov]

@aFrInaTi0n I noticed it only today, but I’m not a daily visitor. 

Oddly enough, they’re now gone. I wonder if it was an ad that was injecting them. 

[aFrInaTi0n]

Shall we keep it as a weird hiccup for now? If recurring feel free to ping us again.

[ludov]

Will do

[Rogue Redcoat]

I also have this problem, it's like an ad and an AI summary smushed into one.

[ludov]

It’s an ad by “Chatconnect”. In the below screenshot barely readable under the standard ad control buttons in the top-right:

[aFrInaTi0n]

I asked @Jim to take a look. Thanks for the details already! 💪

[ludov]

Against better judgement I clicked on the grey banner a few times to see if I can find some origin.

You get a mini page with ad, AI nonsense, and then the same ad. It’s not related to the ad that’s always at the bottom of the page. 

The banner title text can change while the page is open, so I will try to see if I can see some associated requests.

 I’m now getting them on pretty much every page now, it’s super annoying. 
 

 

[Paul B Technic]

I have also been seeing this at times since late last week.

Happening on all my devices (Windows Laptop, Chromebook and Android phone). Seems to come up at random.

[JesseNight]

I remember Jim saying 1.5 year ago that they were looking into an ad-free option with donations, did something ever come out of that?

[mahjqa]

Gemini is now inserting ads within users posts. This is getting out of hand. 

[JesseNight]

3 hours ago, mahjqa said:

Gemini is now inserting ads within users posts. This is getting out of hand. 

I can only advice a good adblocker (using uBlock Origin myself).
Sorry if that's inappropriate to say, and yes I feel kinda bad for Eurobricks... But ads are just a horrible experience, and once again I wouldn't mind donating something directly.

[Jim]

This is annoying. I will check it out...

It was an Auto generated experiment bij Google Adsense. I have stopped it.

[Paul B Technic]

I also found these were running on my blog, which I have also killed.

[ludov]

On 6/19/2026 at 12:13 PM, Jim said:

This is annoying. I will check it out...

It was an Auto generated experiment bij Google Adsense. I have stopped it.

Awesome, thanks! Of all the annoying ad things they've come up with, this is by far the worst. I miss the old internet...

[Murdoch17]

1 hour ago, ludov said:

Awesome, thanks! Of all the annoying ad things they've come up with, this is by far the worst. I miss the old internet...

Same: the old internet was way better! Thank you again @Jim for fixing this!

[Jim]

Thanks for pointing it out.

[JesseNight]

3 hours ago, Jim said:

Thanks for pointing it out.

Did you ever get the chance to look into a donation system for an ad-free experience?

[Jim]

4 hours ago, JesseNight said:

Did you ever get the chance to look into a donation system for an ad-free experience?

We will be looking into that later this year. However, the two Ads we have now will probably remain.

[JesseNight]

The whole point of this was for people to get rid of ads and provide an alternate source of income.
You said "We really don't need much, so if there is a group of people who are willing to support keeping EB Ad-free (or at least obtrusive ad-free) that would be great." and we're happy to contribute to that, as an alternative to ads...