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You can tell most people don’t read the article before they vote. Ddg just added a way to turn on or off ai results by default.
What article? This just links to the separate search engine experience.
I think they mean, the ycombinator post. It’s linked in the post here on lemmy:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46686338
I think basically what’s happened is that someone stumbled into the DDG url with AI turned off (https://noai.duckduckgo.com/), seen the thing that says “we’ve turned off AI answers” and misunderstood whats happened.
Reading takes time. I wanna doomscroll /s.
Well, at least it is nice that it’s not forced onto the user. When turned off, anything AI-related also seems to be hidden from the UI which I like. The settings are stored in the local storage so it shouldn’t get reset too often (when not using an account).
I’ve switched to Ecosia from Kagi because they started spending my money on AI instead of making the search engine better, and I stumbled upon an option to something like “Chat with Ecosia AI. You can try asking it how to be energy neutral. Note that by interacting with this chat you agree to the ChatGPT privacy policy”
It’s baffling how out of touch that sentence is, lol. “Energy neutral” and “ChatGPT” in one sentence is so bizzare.
I guess I need to wait for Brave to add this subdomain as a search option.
Edit for the down voters: seriously. On the mobile app you can only select from what’s listed. There is no way to just edit and save.
the downvotes come because you use brave
I know. I’ve tried others. I keep trying Firefox but it crashes too often. Every browser has problems. But Brave has been the most solid regardless of thecl ethical issues people have with it. I was doing the crypto/ad thing for years but the value of BAT is so low that it works out to spending 20 minutes a month to get 10¢ so I stopped that.
I’m thinking of switching to DDG browser but haven’t had enough problems to force it.
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You tried but that doesn’t work. That’s for the desktop version. Mobile does not let you do anything other than pick from a list. No way to manually edit and save the default.
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That changes it for when you search on the home page. Not the address bar.
