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Hello Netskope Community, 

With the recent launch of Google’s AI mode in Google searches, I am looking for a way to block it using Netskope. I noticed that the URL pattern is different between the AI mode and the regular search results, however the wildcard matching cannot be used because of the way Netskope handles wildcards. I am not seeing an obvious way to use regex to match it, however if someone else does please let me know. I also explored matching the activity based on HTTP header and was unable to find a unique header field that I could match on (again if anyone knows different please let me know). My next plan of attack is to try making a custom CCI application using the Netskope App Activity recorder browser extension and block access to it, but I haven’t tried that yet. Does anyone have any other ideas?

Thank you in advance. 

Hi ​@kpattersonAO ,

Currently, Google AI overview mode is not detected as Generative AI category and there is no straightforward way to block this via Netskope.

this is raised to product management team as feature request(FR).

 

 


@kpattersonAO 

 

This can be handled with RexEx URL list:

AI Mode
.*.google.com.*udm\=50.*


AI Overview (can be utilized as AI gemini)
.*google.com/async/folsrch.*


@kpattersonAO 

 

This can be handled with RexEx URL list:

AI Mode
.*.google.com.*udm\=50.*


AI Overview (can be utilized as AI gemini)
.*google.com/async/folsrch.*

I was able to figure this out on my own shortly after making this post. Thanks for the reply!


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