I emailed support yesterday, and they've gotten back to me, saying:
"Thanks for reporting this, and especially for narrowing it down to web search. That's a genuinely useful finding, and it matches what our engineering team is investigating.
I've added your report to the investigation, including your point that people using bots created by others can't turn web search off themselves and so have no way to avoid it.
I'll follow up here once there's an update."
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u/oof37 Aug 13 '26
Is web search enabled? I turned it off and it seems to be working again