For your private browsing tabs: https://noai.duckduckgo.com/

I use it now. On Firefox.

This is how it’s done.

I haven’t googled anything in years.

I've switched to kagi.

It's not free, but it's absolutely the best IMO.

When I search something I don't see an AI summary. Not sure if I disabled that or not.

I wanted to use Ecosia but they won’t let you 100% disable AI, which is fucked for a supposedly green venture for so many reasons.

DuckDuckGo now has their own browser that blows FF out of the water.

Edit: Chromium, don’t bother.

Well that won't help me find scat porn at all then!

Useful except when the solution to some problem is to be found in the responses of an old forum post which reads something like, "how do I fix this fucking shit?"

"When was the fucking war of 1812?"

I don't use Google for a while now because of the ads and garbage they present ahead of real results, but I remember when you used to just get what you searched for and this is close to that. pretty cool.

Why not just make it so you search in that as the default instead of typing 14?

You can also get to this through the UI, too. It's the "Web" tab.

Also, I miss Pinterest.

Wait, what? Why? Are you talking about the same Pinterest as that search-result-clogging, not ever leading to originals, spamming and content-obscuring piece of shit website?

Here you go:

https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite

Was with you til the end there. I use the personal blocklist extension, and I got it specifically for pinterest. It's grown to include others, but Pinterest was the beginning.

Doesn't matter. The thread is just locked and ignored forever by Google. There are thousands of such issues and complaints across all Google products, and that's how they deal with it.