how to switch to noai.duckduckgo.com on firefox without installing any extensions or plugins:
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@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?
@SudoCat Oh my bad. You're right, if right clicked in the text field it shows Add search engine. Thank you.
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how to switch to noai.duckduckgo.com on firefox without installing any extensions or plugins:
• open settings > search
• scroll down to search shortcuts and click add
• fill out according to the image below (text in alt text)
• click add engine
• scroll back up and select "DuckDuckGo No AI" under "default search engine"@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.
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@eniko What does the &noai parameter do? (Other than that, it's identical to what I added a few days ago.)
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)
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how to switch to noai.duckduckgo.com on firefox without installing any extensions or plugins:
• open settings > search
• scroll down to search shortcuts and click add
• fill out according to the image below (text in alt text)
• click add engine
• scroll back up and select "DuckDuckGo No AI" under "default search engine"Thanks!
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how to switch to noai.duckduckgo.com on firefox without installing any extensions or plugins:
• open settings > search
• scroll down to search shortcuts and click add
• fill out according to the image below (text in alt text)
• click add engine
• scroll back up and select "DuckDuckGo No AI" under "default search engine"@eniko I can't be the only one who just turns off that function in the "normal" search engine. Am I?
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how to switch to noai.duckduckgo.com on firefox without installing any extensions or plugins:
• open settings > search
• scroll down to search shortcuts and click add
• fill out according to the image below (text in alt text)
• click add engine
• scroll back up and select "DuckDuckGo No AI" under "default search engine"@eniko What about SearXNG and 4get public instances? -
how to switch to noai.duckduckgo.com on firefox without installing any extensions or plugins:
• open settings > search
• scroll down to search shortcuts and click add
• fill out according to the image below (text in alt text)
• click add engine
• scroll back up and select "DuckDuckGo No AI" under "default search engine"@eniko maybe I should try out ddg again. I stopped using it due to being used to google -
how to switch to noai.duckduckgo.com on firefox without installing any extensions or plugins:
• open settings > search
• scroll down to search shortcuts and click add
• fill out according to the image below (text in alt text)
• click add engine
• scroll back up and select "DuckDuckGo No AI" under "default search engine"@eniko My search engine is now changed, woo! Also made sure to remove google and bing and all that nonsense.
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@eniko What about SearXNG and 4get public instances?
@feeblu i don't know anything about those
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how to switch to noai.duckduckgo.com on firefox without installing any extensions or plugins:
• open settings > search
• scroll down to search shortcuts and click add
• fill out according to the image below (text in alt text)
• click add engine
• scroll back up and select "DuckDuckGo No AI" under "default search engine"@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.
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@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.
@rocketsoup @eniko thanks this seems to work on iOS Safari which doesn't let you specify a specific web address for a search engine.
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how to switch to noai.duckduckgo.com on firefox without installing any extensions or plugins:
• open settings > search
• scroll down to search shortcuts and click add
• fill out according to the image below (text in alt text)
• click add engine
• scroll back up and select "DuckDuckGo No AI" under "default search engine"@eniko You can also just turn AI off in your DDG prefs.
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@eniko You can also just turn AI off in your DDG prefs.
@BalooUriza yeah but this sends a stronger signal
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how to switch to noai.duckduckgo.com on firefox without installing any extensions or plugins:
• open settings > search
• scroll down to search shortcuts and click add
• fill out according to the image below (text in alt text)
• click add engine
• scroll back up and select "DuckDuckGo No AI" under "default search engine"@eniko And a general FYI, there's also
&udm=14that can be appended to Google URLs for the same effect - no more Gemini garbage -
@eniko And a general FYI, there's also
&udm=14that can be appended to Google URLs for the same effect - no more Gemini garbage@astraleureka but that would mean still using google
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@astraleureka but that would mean still using google
@eniko yeah
sometimes I just can't find stuff with ddg and end up having to use google too -
how to switch to noai.duckduckgo.com on firefox without installing any extensions or plugins:
• open settings > search
• scroll down to search shortcuts and click add
• fill out according to the image below (text in alt text)
• click add engine
• scroll back up and select "DuckDuckGo No AI" under "default search engine"Thank you so much
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how to switch to noai.duckduckgo.com on firefox without installing any extensions or plugins:
• open settings > search
• scroll down to search shortcuts and click add
• fill out according to the image below (text in alt text)
• click add engine
• scroll back up and select "DuckDuckGo No AI" under "default search engine"@eniko I been using brave search
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@eniko I been using brave search
️ am I cooked?@fluttersh i have nothing good to say about Brave https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-brave-browser/
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how to switch to noai.duckduckgo.com on firefox without installing any extensions or plugins:
• open settings > search
• scroll down to search shortcuts and click add
• fill out according to the image below (text in alt text)
• click add engine
• scroll back up and select "DuckDuckGo No AI" under "default search engine"@eniko everyone learns a new little thing every day but I'm sitting here thinking "damn, toddler's internet instructions here"
Dunno if I'm lucky or everyone else actually I do know fuck smartphones people started being forced to the internet instead of being naturally drawn to it like lil' ol' me did and have to learn "basic stuff" cuz there is no longer "basic stuff to learn" but "consume consume consume"
