You prob know this already, but if you duck-search, you can go to a slightly different entry point at https://noai.duckduckgo.com to do web searches without AI slop dumping on you.
I see they've dressed up the landing page their! Now more obviously non-AI. I mean, it's a selling feature, so yeah, go to town guys.
(if you still google things, consider the duck search! it's worked well for me for years, and the non-ai version is a nice step forward).
@ottaross it seemed to also work without Javascript, but that was a redirect to html.duckduckgo.com/html which does work without Javascript and just became my default search engine
Unfortunately the noai page won't even render without Javascript :(
@ottaross I have the NO AI version set up as my preferred search engine
I can do that in DDG's own browser, but it's a PITA.
Tor offers it right in their dropdown menu with other search engines (yay).
What other browsers let you select NoAI DDG as your default search engine?
@callisto @darwinwoodka @ottaross You can add a custom search engine and then select it as default in Firefox (and forks thereof). Pretty painless.
@skylark13 @callisto @darwinwoodka @ottaross yup, confirmed. Enter the following URL as a search engine;
@harald @skylark13 @darwinwoodka @ottaross
Thanks - but hmmmmm - I'm transitioning away from Firefox but still have a lot bookmarked there, but when I try, I get "! That URL doesn't look right. Please check it and try again" and it won't let me click "Add Engine"?
@callisto @harald @darwinwoodka @ottaross
You need to go to Settings - Search. Then at the bottom you have "search shortcuts", there you can click "Add" to add a new one. Name it "NoAI DDG" or whatever and paste
https://noai.duckduckgo.com/%s
In the URL field. (Right-click copy that since Mastodon sometimes hides the https part) Then you can go to the top where it says "Default search engine" and select the new one you just created.
It's a bit different in the mobile version but similar enough.
