In Firefox and its derivatives, you can add the non-AI version of DuckDuckGo as a search engine by going into Settings > Search > Search Shortcuts > Add and then giving it a name of your choice with https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%25s being put in the "URL with %s in place of search term" part. You have to remove the 25 part from the URL though, that seems to be a Lemmy quirk with posting a link.

I don't know when they made this available, but I'm learning about this now and it's super useful if you hate LLMs and also use a browser that clears cookies on close (such as Mullvad or LibreWolf).

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[–] 25 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

Thank and bless you!

Edit to add: It works in Firefox Focus also. I had to remove the 25 for settings to accept the add. Works great in Focus

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    I'm pretty sure that 25 is a mistake in the formatting. It's meant to be just %s but the % character itself got url-encoded.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

    so it should be, https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%s

    Just a FYI, the google version is, https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I just want to be able to permanently blacklist certain sites.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yeah, fuck Pinterest, W3Schools, and those Stackoverflow clones

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  • W3 schools has been around for a long time. Their html / css / js pages are really good. They get a pass.

    I'm talking about the endless crap of SEO pages that have always been a problem but have gotten far, far worse lately. Also any of those awful coupon websites that quickly duplicate the tab and close the original so it breaks the back button history.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago

    i'd rather have it the other way around:

    • duckduckgo.com: no ai
    • ai.duckduckgo.com: with ai
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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Thank you. Was getting annoyed at how much space the ai response took up

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Isn't it just the height of a normal result? I occasionally see it in default desktop.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago*

    Wow, thanks! That is super useful.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I started using recently. No complaints.

    Does anyone know what you can put for the "suggestions API url" in Firefox? It's optional so I left it blank.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I'm trying to figure out how to do that on Brave

    The consensus seems to be that we used to be able to, then they left the button that disabled it, but it did nothing.

    Then they fixed it by removing the button

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I think Chromium based browsers had something where you'd need to open the homepage of the search engine (https://noai.duckduckgo.com/ in this case), right click on the URL in the address bar, and then click "Add search engine name". Not sure if that still works though.

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    [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Thanks for posting this.

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