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

[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.

[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.