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[Solved] Is Duckduckgo slowing down? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by fin@sh.itjust.works to c/duckduckgo@lemmy.world

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tldr; After some research I found that including ?kbg=-1 to the url disables the AI feature. So, you can disable AI permanently using the following as your search engine configuration (which is available at least on Librewolf)

https://duckduckgo.com/search?q=%25s&kbg=-1

or you can temporary disable the feature by including -noai to your search query.

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Been using ddg for over 4 years and I feel it is getting slower these days. Or is it just me?

Startpage and other search engines loads fine. Also, I'm using Librewolf so the problem is not the cache.

[–] teft@piefed.social 3 points 1 year ago

I’ve had the same problem recently. Using firefox with uBo. Any time i search for images it takes 10 seconds to load the results. I refuse to use google so i’ll deal with it but it’s pretty annoying.

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