Comment by alganet

4 days ago

The normal DuckDuckGo also has their own AI assistant.

You need to use plain HTML DuckDuckGo in order to get rid of it.

https://html.duckduckgo.com/html

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Throwthrowbob  4 days ago

If you don't use Private Browsing (or the equivalent) or otherwise clear your browsing cache, DuckDuckGo's AI assistant can be disabled by:

- clicking the little gear to the right of the search types (near "Assist" and "Duck.ai")

- Click on "Manage" for AI Features

- Setting "Duck.ai" to Off

- Setting "Assist" to Never

To the right of the features above, I saw one can save their settings with a password, to the "cloud". This seems to be that you can enter this password when using DuckDuckGo elsewhere for your settings to be set again (or in Private sessions, though you'd have to re-enter the password on a new session).

  • yegg  4 days ago

    We also offer https://noai.duckduckgo.com/ which is just regular DuckDuckGo with AI features turned off.

    • jacquesm  4 days ago

      I have to pay you my respect. I've been watching DDG pretty much since day #1 and against all odds you've managed to both stay the course (which pretty much everybody claimed you would not) and steadily improve on it. It's one of the most impressive projects in this space, which many have tried and eventually gave up on (or compromised their ethics). Thank you.

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    • jacekm  4 days ago

      Thank you! I have no issues with occasional AI responses but nevertheless it's great to have a choice!

      Are there any other subdomains worth knowing? I was only aware of the Lite version so far.

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    • Throwthrowbob  3 days ago

      How does one get the combined effects of multiple subdomains? For example, no AI, safe browsing, html, lite, as proposed by others?