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[–] 115 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (18 children)

Google's AI results are what finally got me to switch my default search engine to noai.duckduckgo.

You can set it with

https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%25s&noai=

in your web browser settings.

Edit: posting here keeps adding a "25" after the percent sign and before "s&noai=". You don't need the number there.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 hours ago

    Google’s AI results are what finally got me to switch my default search engine to noai.duckduckgo.

    Yeah I used to DDG for a good while then when they rolled out the ai (before the noai subdomain I guess), I decided that something I use 10 to 30 times in a day might actually be worth paying for and just went with a paid service that lets me turn all that off.

    The important thing is to get off the goog, though. They're too big for all our good now.

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  • [–] 27 points 19 hours ago (11 children)

    I ran ddg for a while it got crappy. I’ve since moved to kagi

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  • [–] 14 points 13 hours ago (8 children)

    The idea is cool but I think I'll pass.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 hours ago* (3 children)

    Pay for the product or be the product. I like having customizable search that works and isn't filled with ads and features I don't want. Or in the case of ddg, I like being able to search news and not ending up on MSN fucking constantly (because Bing)...

    With that said, there's also mojeek and searx, worth trying.

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  • [–] 1 point 33 minutes ago*

    I just don't trust anything that an AI Techbro Slopper company says or does. You mentioned their privacy policy? Well anybody who ships AI is sending your information to an AI Datacenter which inevitably ends up in the hands of both advertisers and fascists.

    Of course if we're comparing Kagi to other searches then they're still better, and that has value, but it's not for me.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 hours ago (1 child)

    Half of the time you pay for the product and you're stillthe product

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  • [–] 6 points 4 hours ago

    Yeah those half suck. Anyway, I told myself I wouldn't shill but Kagi's privacy policy spells it out pretty clearly where they stand.

    Could they one day turn around and start storing or selling user data? Yes. But they would face such a user backlash that it would end them. Their entire revenue is from subscriptions so without happy paying customers they're cooked.

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  • [–] -1 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

    Naturally not everyone can afford $5 a month for a superior product. Have you tried yahoo search?

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