In Firefox and its derivatives, you can add the non-AI version of DuckDuckGo as a search engine by going into Settings > Search > Search Shortcuts > Add and then giving it a name of your choice with https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%25s being put in the “URL with %s in place of search term” part. You have to remove the 25 part from the URL though, that seems to be a Lemmy quirk with posting a link.
I don’t know when they made this available, but I’m learning about this now and it’s super useful if you hate LLMs and also use a browser that clears cookies on close (such as Mullvad or LibreWolf).
Thank you!
i’d rather have it the other way around:
- duckduckgo.com: no ai
- ai.duckduckgo.com: with ai
Thank you. Was getting annoyed at how much space the ai response took up
Isn’t it just the height of a normal result? I occasionally see it in default desktop.
Yes but it’a always listed as the first result so it made it harder to avoid when I just wanted to search for a specific site.
I started using recently. No complaints.
Does anyone know what you can put for the “suggestions API url” in Firefox? It’s optional so I left it blank.
This seems to work for me:
https://noai.duckduckgo.com/ac/?q=%25s&type=list(edit: again, remove the ‘25’ between percent sign and
s)
Thank and bless you!
Edit to add: It works in Firefox Focus also. I had to remove the 25 for settings to accept the add. Works great in Focus
I’m pretty sure that 25 is a mistake in the formatting. It’s meant to be just %s but the % character itself got url-encoded.
Yeah it’s a mistake in formatting lol, not sure how to fix it really.
so it should be,
https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%25sJust a FYI, the google version is,
https://www.google.com/search?q=%25s&udm=14It still gets encoded lol does this work? https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=\%25s
Wow, thanks! That is super useful.
I’m trying to figure out how to do that on Brave
The consensus seems to be that we used to be able to, then they left the button that disabled it, but it did nothing.
Then they fixed it by removing the button
I think Chromium based browsers had something where you’d need to open the homepage of the search engine (https://noai.duckduckgo.com/ in this case), right click on the URL in the address bar, and then click “Add search engine name”. Not sure if that still works though.
