this post was submitted on 01 Jun 2026
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[–] manuremy@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The NoAI should be the standard and people who wish to play with the sloppy diarrhea could put those features on in the settings - not the other way around and have the settings reset after each time you clear cookies. But gee, thanks for this at least.

I recently was able to change the search engine in my browser (Firefox) from AI-DDG to the NoAI-DDG, and I did it by adding a custom search engine. The URL needed for that, in Firefox, is https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%25s

[–] Mountainaire@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Boycott DDG. This is a trick. noai should be www and their current www should be ai. They are no better apart from merely offering an option that isn't even standard.

[–] furtiveParalysis@jlai.lu 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah but mainline ddg has a lot of ai. I like duckduck but they are actually letting letting people slip into AI. It's cool they provide a no AI alternative too but that one I've not come across despite being a ddg user.

[–] ZapBeebz_@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I swapped to Qwant a few weeks ago and I've been happy so far! It's very smooth and was straightforward to set up in Firefox on both mobile and desktop.

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago

Kagi beats all IMO still. Makes the internet enjoyable !!