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Unfortunately DDG still enshittifies their results with AI garbage as much as they can. Both with the intrusive AI blob at the top and replacing the page summa
by inferiorhuman 2y ago
Unfortunately DDG still enshittifies their results with AI garbage as much as they can. Both with the intrusive AI blob at the top and replacing the page summaries with dreadful AI goobleygook.
- dijksterhuis 2y agoYou can disable the AI summary thing: https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/duckai/how-to-hide-ai-chat/ https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/duckai/how-to-h...
- inferiorhuman 2y agoOther way around. That disables the AI chatbot monstrosity at the top of the page. But only if you're logged in and/or don't clear your cookies. The AI word salad summaries for each individual page have no toggle (unless you count !g).
- dijksterhuis 2y agoI actually have two settings in the AI features settings area: one for "chat" and another for "assist" -- which I think is the word salad summaries? I've got chat set to Off and assist set to Never. Searching 'octatrack' has the wikipedia page on the top right as a summary box thing. no ai word salad for me :shrug:
- inferiorhuman 2y agoA/B testing. I don't always get AI gibberish in place of actual page summaries. Either way I want to see actual results even if I clear my cookies or open a new private tab.
- dijksterhuis 2y agoi don't know if you'll ever see this -- but i just discovered this exists today: https://noai.duckduckgo.com https://noai.duckduckgo.com