DDG has a noAI portal that filters out AI images and doesn’t bother you with summations and things. it’s available at noai.duckduckgo.com and you can add it as a separate search engine to Firefox thusly.
There is also the no-java site, idk if it filters out ai images, but doesn’t seem to have ai otherwise, no search assist.
Java is not Javascript. They’re not even related. Netscape chose the name to profit from Java’s poularity back in its’ day.
there’s also https://lite.duckduckgo.com/
I’m going to say something spicy here, but for me personally, I’ve found DuckDuckGo’s AI search summaries to be quite useful. Not for the actual AI summary text, but for the links they give, which are often better than the normal search results.
That being said, I could easily do without them.
As I said elsewhere, the problem is in fact that search engine providers deliberately make their search results worse to push AI usage. This keeps the user entirely under their control and at the same time hurts the websites the AI training data was stolen from, because no one will bother to visit them any more. I’m not saying DDG does this, but they get their search results from other search engines where this is the case.
You can also set them to only show up when you click a button for them, which I always preferred.
Unfortunately not possible when using temporary containers
Temporary Containers Plus is a Firefox extension that puts all containerless tabs in temporary throwaway containers that get deleted soon after they become unused
It does, however, interfere with saving site settings because cookies won’t be saved.
Could you maybe get around that with a greasemonkey (or preferred addon) script?
I don’t trust DuckDuckGo. I think they’re… Too clean, too friendly, too invested in the “teehee we are a cool brand” image. They’re also offering things that don’t make sense for a for profit organization (you can simply disable the ads? For free? And still use their infrastructure?).
I’d bet ten years from now we figure out they are indeed collecting user data, valuable user data because it comes from lowering the guards of users that otherwise block data collection attempts. For a government, for other companies, or both.
Listed: not a single legitimate reason to distrust them.
What do you think of their audits?
Apple also promised they were squeaky clean with your data. Snowden came along and shattered this illusion.
Even “independent” audits are not universally trust worthy.
Yes, but then at that point of distrust, we’d just be better living a caveman life without internet. Gotta draw the line somewhere!
Or I can use a self hosted SearXNG instance and not be a caveman? Or I can use the tool, but not glaze it online spreading it to others as if trust was a given?
Fan of DDG, but i find SearX with better results
SearX is deprecated whereas SearXNG however, is its successor.
SearXNG is not a search engine but an aggregator, it’ll utilize whatever search engines it’s configured with to output results.
I just repeated a very specific search I made earlier today on DDG using SearX for the first time. The results are very similar, with many identical links. SearX gave me more forum results versus listicles though. From a one shot it looks pretty good. I’ll save it, thanks.
