How is this any different than selecting the text and going to “Look Up” that exists natively anywhere in the OS?

I suppose one aspect is that it looks like a link the website creator has made themselves which might therefore be deceptive? Whereas the OS context menu is obviously from the OS.

Arguably the context menu is generally understood to be (at least partially) browser- or OS-supplied, compared to things that look like hyperlinks.

There's no excuse for thinking, in 2024, that the endgame of this feature is something meant to benefit users and not the ad company.

It's no different than that and it's not deceptive least of which because it happens inside the Google search app.

Half the discussions on these stories are comments from people who can't read reacting to bad faith reporting.