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I looked for the right term but force-feeding is what it is. I yesterday also changed my default search engine from Duckduckgo to Ecosia as they seem the only o

I looked for the right term but force-feeding is what it is. I yesterday also changed my default search engine from Duckduckgo to Ecosia as they seem the only one left not to provide flaky AI summaries. In fact I also tried the communication part - outside of Outlook - but people don't like superficial AI polish

lukaslevert 1y ago
Dunno about DDG but on Brave Search you can turn off the AI summaries if you prefer not to have them. Disclosure: I work at Brave.
JoshTriplett 1y ago
You can completely turn off the AI summaries in DDG.
- metalman 1y ago
  currently run duckduck, but dont get the summeraries as my phone browser sets individual domain conditions, and duck duck will return results without having java,cookies,dom enabled
- zczc 1y ago
  Yes. https://duckduckgo.com/settings#aifeatures https://duckduckgo.com/settings#aifeatures
Gigachad 1y ago
Yep, seems like every product is cramming in their forced slop everywhere begging you to use their new AI they spent so much on.
dijksterhuis 1y ago
FWIW noai.duckduckgo.com is a thing
- mattdutra321 1y ago
  You can also just scroll down