nixCraft 🐧DuckDuckGo's AI-free search saw nearly 28% more visits in the week following Google's insistence that people love AI mode. Is anyone surprised by this result?
StarkRG@nixCraft DDG isn't inherently AI-free, but it does give you the option to disable that crap. I hope this surge makes them realise there's no growth in AI. LLMs are a dead-end technology and the sooner people see that the better.
Eggs now in different baskets.@StarkRG @nixCraft Try noai.duckduckgo.com
While I was installing a new version of LinuxMint on my remaining elderly parent's laptops recently I changed to the noai version of DuckDuckGo in all of the browsers that I installed.
My elderly parent is very thankful as it cuts out a lot of confusing elements in the standard AI enabled DuckDuckGo search page.
@StarkRG @nixCraft If you mean using the standard DuckDuckGo page with AI features turned off, this falls down if you then search in a private browsing session.
The AI features (in my experience) are all enabled in private browsing mode even if you turned them all off in a standard browsing session.
As I often search in private browsing mode this became quite tiresome after a while.
AI features stay turned off in a private browsing session when using the NoAI version of DDG.