What is love is to filter out all the AI websites that get returned. I think this just stops the AI sanders box and some AI images.
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These are the ones I use (Kagi needs to be logged in, but you could use Privacy Pass with their extension for anonymous searching - I haven't tested if it needs any extra configuration to block AI with Privacy Pass)
Name: Kagi
URL: <Copy Session Link from a logged in window>
Keyword: @k
Suggestion Url: https://kagisuggest.com/api/autosuggest?q=%s
Name: DuckDuckGo.noai
URL: https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?start=1&q=%s
Keyword: @d
Suggestion URL: https://ac.duckduckgo.com/ac/?type=list&q=%s
Name: Brave.noai
URL: https://search.brave.com/search?summary=0&q=%s
Keyword: @b
Suggestion URL: https://search.brave.com/api/suggest?q=%s
The start=1 parameter on DDG keeps it from doing the first run popups when searching in private windows.
Also, I haven't tried but you can theoretically mix and match suggest URLs with different search engines if you wanted to somehow decouple search suggestions from actual searches.
Edit: on second thought, that's effectively just doubling the number of entities who know what you're searching for. I see no privacy benefit to decoupling. Perhaps something to do if one engine's suggestions are pure trash.
would be cool if you could put the string in a codeblock for easy copying
For DDG,
https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%25s
But it seems it changed, so
https://noai.duckduckgo.com/%s
edit: as pointed out below, the first one (now corrected) was missing a ?. I am simply a dumbass for missing it. Hopefully that helps anyone coming on this in the future.
thank you!
The first URL is missing a question mark: https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%25s
Edit: Please ignore the "25". It should end with "%s". I can't actually write that, due to a Lemmy bug. 🫠
q=%s worked as recently as last week for me. They might as well automate the extensions and let you just use the domain name as an input to make it easier for the layperson to do.
You made me finally check ecosia if there is an ai free feature and there is and it seems to filter out ai images in the image search BLESS
I've been looking for a way to do this for Qwant, but not sure it's possible... 🫤
While not a native Spanish speaker, I somehow read that as "doesn't have it". I need to ask my hispanic friends if they would ever use a subdomain like noaiai for the AI-free version?
Or you can just https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/duckduckgo-no-ai-search/
or
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/duckduckgo-no-ai-search/faoilnlkccdjdkpljainiiimmijofmpd
Things like this is exactly how I got hacked for the first time in my life even though I'd say I'm pretty careful as someone who eventually ended up working in Cybersecurity.
When anti-adblocks started being a thing, there was a pretty well recommended alternative, I think something like NanoDefender? Don't remember the name. Several hundred thousand installs, recommended as a good alternative that's not blocked as often as AdBlock was. Made it my default adblock.
Two years later, the guy sold the extension to a "company" that immediately pushed a infostealer update.
So, installing random extension if I can avoid it, unless it's really well known, like Bitwarden or UBlock, is never worth it. Especially if you can easily solve it some other way.
I mean the extension is published by the Duckduckgo team... Also I can get my friends and family click on that, but no way to make them edit some settings.
Chrome? Gross...
Sorry, I thought you only included a Chrome one, the links looked like just one to me!
You say "just do this," but installing something seems like more than just editing the configuration to me.



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