• Lantsu@sopuli.xyz
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    11 hours ago

    It’s not even about disabling it, DDG keeps turning it back on… I live in a constant battle.

    • jj4211@lemmy.world
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      10 hours ago

      Which is crazy as they also made a big deal about how many users don’t want an AI result and how they are credibly the choice for those people.

      I get offering the feature, but insisting upon it while also bragging about how they cater to the majority of respondents that didn’t like it is bizarre…

      Google at least is consistent, they just plainly act as of the people who dislike it don’t exist.

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      9 hours ago

      I just tested it. It stores a cookie when you disable duck.ai and Search Assist but no cookie corresponds to them being enabled. Perhaps you might have cleared cookies?

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        9 hours ago

        Yeah, I’m aware this is the reason. Which fucking sucks because I need to remember turn them back off every single time I happen to need clear cookies… But that’s probably their plan.

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          6 hours ago

          I have Firefox and have it set up to erase all history and cookies. I just like a clean and cleared browser when I get on. To prevent myself from having to log in to every website I might need to use that day, I took all of my websites I go to regularly, and made a container for them in Firefox Containers. Then, I go into Firefox settings and paste the websites into the Exceptions under Browsing data.

          This has worked for me for years, so I hope you try it out and it works for you too! :-]

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          8 hours ago

          You could set up an exception for that website to not have its cookies cleared when you wipe the rest

      • Lantsu@sopuli.xyz
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        6 hours ago

        That works as the starter page, but can’t be set as the custom search engine… Only the real DDG can be set as that.