how to switch to noai.duckduckgo.com on firefox without installing any extensions or plugins:

[freddy@social.security.plumbing]

@eniko you can do that to almost any input search field, including wikipedia, dictionaries and your fedi instance

[rocketsoup@mastodon.social]

@eniko I never see anyone mention that you can just change your site preferences too. DDG actually has meaningful site settings saved as a cookie, no account necessary. You can disable AI features as well as lots of other options, including disabling ads.

[regendans@todon.eu]

@SudoCat And what web browser is that screen shot about ? Trying to add noai DDG like that has not worked for me in any Firefox or Firefox fork since months. (btw Can be added easily in Tor and Mullvad browser from the search engine part of the browser settings, and LibreWolf people suggested they would be open to do the same).

[sudocat@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@regendans Firefox Developer Edition 152.0b5 (aarch64). Although this feature has been around aeons as far as I can remember.

I notice that in your screenshot, there is not a focus outline on the input field, and no text input context items have appeared. Are you right clicking on the text input, or the page itself?

[regendans@todon.eu]

@SudoCat Oh my bad. You're right, if right clicked in the text field it shows Add search engine. Thank you.

[krosylight@fosstodon.org]

@eniko I would have expected that right-clicking the address bar should already suggest the search engine addition, but apparently DuckDuckGo serves both versions in the same name DuckDuckGo. So Firefox thinks it already has that search engine and thus shows no option.

Ideally they should serve it under some different name and this should become easier for everyone.

Also filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2043838 though.

[epd5qrxx@mastodon.online]

@jedimb

Most likely nothing.
At least it is not an officially documented URL parameter

How To Use URL Parameters To Change Your DuckDuckGo Search Settings - DuckDuckGo Help Pages

DuckDuckGo doesn’t track you. That’s the DuckDuckGo privacy policy in a nutshell.

(duckduckgo.com)

@eniko

[uair@autistics.life]

@eniko

Thanks!

[mrgrumpymonkey@mastodon.social]

@eniko I can't be the only one who just turns off that function in the "normal" search engine. Am I?

[feeblu@donotsta.re]

@eniko What about SearXNG and 4get public instances?

[david@voidposter.club]

@eniko maybe I should try out ddg again. I stopped using it due to being used to google

[jdarkside@mastodon.social]

@eniko My search engine is now changed, woo! Also made sure to remove google and bing and all that nonsense.

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@feeblu i don't know anything about those

[paculino@tech.lgbt]

@eniko this right clicking in the url box only works if at least two search engines are unhidden in the list in settings, in case anyone can't figure out why... it took me too long to figure it out.

[officeplant@mastodon.social]

@rocketsoup @eniko thanks this seems to work on iOS Safari which doesn't let you specify a specific web address for a search engine.

[baloouriza@social.tulsa.ok.us]

@eniko You can also just turn AI off in your DDG prefs.

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@BalooUriza yeah but this sends a stronger signal

[astraleureka@social.treehouse.systems]

@eniko And a general FYI, there's also &udm=14 that can be appended to Google URLs for the same effect - no more Gemini garbage

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@astraleureka but that would mean still using google

[astraleureka@social.treehouse.systems]

@eniko yeah sometimes I just can't find stuff with ddg and end up having to use google too