YSK: there's a lite version of DuckDuckGo
https://sh.itjust.works/post/48254301
YSK: there's a lite version of DuckDuckGo - sh.itjust.works
And it should work with practically any browser in existence. It’s also one of
the few websites still using HTML 4.01.
There’s also the No AI version, that only contains a little AI.
noai.duckduckgo.com

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DuckDuckGoI’ve seen AI in Firefox now too. I guess our choices will be a little AI or a lot of AI from now on.
Theres still browsers like waterfox, librewolf, palemoon, ungoogled chromium. For search engines theres SearX(NG), 4get.ca, YaCy, some more obscure ones like qwant or marginalia.search and a dozen other resellers of google and bing that nobody cares about.