In Firefox and its derivatives, you can add the non-AI version of DuckDuckGo as a search engine by going into Settings > Search > Search Shortcuts > Add and then giving it a name of your choice with https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%25s being put in the "URL with %s in place of search term" part. You have to remove the 25 part from the URL though, that seems to be a Lemmy quirk with posting a link.

I don't know when they made this available, but I'm learning about this now and it's super useful if you hate LLMs and also use a browser that clears cookies on close (such as Mullvad or LibreWolf).

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[–] 14 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

I'm pretty sure that 25 is a mistake in the formatting. It's meant to be just %s but the % character itself got url-encoded.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    so it should be, https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%25s

    Just a FYI, the google version is, https://www.google.com/search?q=%25s&udm=14

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    That redirects to a youtube video, oddly. is this what you meant? https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%5C&s= The links I posted work perfectly for me. I have all cookies turned off for those sites, so maybe that makes a difference. And I am on Firefox.

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