DuckDuckGo has reported huge traffic growth for its “No AI search” tool following Google Search’s AI-focused updates.

[alternativeto@mas.to]

DuckDuckGo has reported huge traffic growth for its “No AI search” tool following Google Search’s AI-focused updates. The page removes all AI elements and images from search results, with new dedicated extensions for Chrome and Firefox https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/6/duckduckgo-s-no-ai-search-tool-reports-huge-traffic-growth-as-google-pushes-ai-results/

[tootbrute@fedi.arkadi.one]

@alternativeto smart. people hate AI. make an anti AI product. PROFIT $$$

DuckDuckGo - Protection. Privacy. Peace of mind.

The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.

DuckDuckGo (noai.duckduckgo.com)

[celinho@mastodon.social]

@alternativeto This search engine is not reliable

[trya2l@fosstodon.org]

@celinho @alternativeto honestly i've never had any trouble finding what I wanted, so I'm always curious about why people would say that

[trya2l@fosstodon.org]

@tootbrute @alternativeto the funny part is that they also do AI, maybe it's less intrusive ?

[celinho@mastodon.social]

@trya2l @alternativeto in addition to the partner with bing they censor the Internet. At the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine conflict they carried out mass censorship.

[trya2l@fosstodon.org]

@celinho @alternativeto oh so you meant it that way. I'm not really informed on these but I've heard about the bing "masquerade ?"

Well they sure aren't transparent as in open source, but one can't be dirtier than google dirt ‍️

[celinho@mastodon.social]

@trya2l @alternativeto I use Brave.

[trya2l@fosstodon.org]

@celinho @alternativeto I did too before ddg, but some people told me it wasn't good either with the crypto stuff et al.

[alison@beige.party]

@alternativeto Switched to it as default immediately upon Google's announcement.

[huntingdon@mstdn.social]

@alternativeto

Only works if none of the Tech Barons can buy up DDG and shut it down or Mozillaize it.

[geonz@mathstodon.xyz]

@alternativeto duckduckgo also FINDS THINGS like a search engine should instead of telling me what I SHOULD WANT.

[goetz@ipv6.social]

@alternativeto

#duckduckgo unfortunately it is not reachable from my vantage point.

#IPv6

[francoisprague@mastodon.social]

@alternativeto very smart. AI could not come either such ideas.

[itsec_agentur@infosec.exchange]

@celinho @trya2l @alternativeto Brave is based on chromium and google search. duckduckgo is based on Bing. The issue here is, that there are no other search indices. AFAIK there exists a collaboration between Ecosia (DE) and qwant (FR) to build an eurpean search index. But it seems, that qwant is financed by Axel Springer ...
Its a catch 22

What I really like about duckduckgo is that they also provide a JS free version lite.duckduckgo.com

[contrasocial@mastodon.social]

@geonz @alternativeto

Main issue with DDG (besides using AI by default) is that their shop search is completely useless, it's literally all Temu.

Still using it over google but hoping for a better alternative to come along. Qwant seems ok but haven't used it enough to know if there are problems.

[erin@mastodon.kvuzet.net]

@alternativeto If you want to make DuckDuckGo NoAI the default search engine in your browsers address bar, I wrote a little guide last week https://kvuzet.net/blog/2026-05-28-tip-use-duckduckgo-no-ai/

[supersatan@mastodon.social]

@celinho @trya2l @alternativeto Brave is owned and founded by an homophobic cryptofascist (we could say that of any rich guy really lol) who's friend with Peter Thiel. On top of that, Brave is not even that good when it comes to privacy.

[teflontrout@beige.party]

@itsec_agentur @celinho @trya2l @alternativeto

You use Brave, are pro crypto, pro threads, and are a huge tool

[paul@notnull.space]

@alternativeto and this is why we should be using no-ai[dot]duckduckgo instead of html[dot]duckduckgo or just javascripting the ai boxes out. DDG have given us the option to tell them we don't want it, let's use it!

Article related note: Uruky looks interesting, I may give them a go but wow I'm having trouble remembering the name... even now I know it it's taken me 4 attempts to type it correctly in this post!