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

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

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"

[sudocat@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@eniko There's actually an even easier way - any properly implemented search form can be added to your browser with just a right click

[jedimb@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@eniko What does the &noai parameter do? (Other than that, it's identical to what I added a few days ago.)

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@jedimb i cannot remember >_>

[jedimb@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@eniko Oh well. I suppose adding it couldn't hurt, at least...

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@jedimb i think its what you used on regular duckduckgo to disable ai features before they rolled out the subdomain

and i just added it just in case

[thechimpyman@mastodon.social]

@eniko Just tried adding noAI to its default URL on Vivaldi and that too works without fuss. Handy, that.

[maqy@fedifreu.de]

@eniko Thanks!

[pibert@bertha.social]

@eniko

Im a lil skeptical of DuckDuckGo

[neutronstar@infosec.exchange]

@eniko @jedimb
That’s just how they format their urls it seems. I’ve seen it before with the ddg html and lite variants where they redirect to html.duckduckgo.com/html when you append the html part. (The same for lite).

I don’t know why they do it, but I have a theory. I think it’s a choice to allow people to navigate to their urls in two different ways. Either by prefixing ”html.” Or by suffixing ”/html/”. Maybe some people are more used to prefixing/suffixing?

But that’s just a theory! A prefix and suffix search engine url theory! And cut!

[leonardof@bertha.social]

@eniko For historical reasons, I have noAI DDG on one device/computer, and regular DDG set up to be just the same (no AI summaries, remove AI media from results, something else I forgot) on another

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@Pibert you should be, but it beats google

[machinelordzero@mastodon.social]

@SudoCat @eniko "Ask an AI Chatbot" >:|

[pibert@bertha.social]

@eniko I use Kagi btw

[sudocat@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@MachineLordZero honestly I hadn't even registered that until you pointed it out. Luckily it turns out that drop down has a "remove ai chat bot" option, so now it is gone from my life

[machinelordzero@mastodon.social]

@SudoCat yaaay

[pibert@bertha.social]

@eniko

Like, nowadays google is the worse search engine because it joins metadata from the website and it usually recommends trashy “saas products” that don’t help you and usually need a “fee” to use the product properly.

Dude, I just need to make my fake png into a transparent background png without needing to download an app to do this what the heck or paying a “fee”

[jstolte@social.vivaldi.net]

@eniko
Thank you! Just did the right click method on Librewolf and then made it the default.

[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.