You can permanently disable the chatbot in full DDG search. Click the little gear.
Not if you use a private browser. They save that setting using cookies, which usually are deleted when you close the browser.
Which highlights how dumb that setup is (by which I mean using cookies for settings). The privacy-friendly search engine compromises your privacy with AI when you use a private browser
You can change the settings to your heart’s content, then scroll to the bottom and click “Show Bookmarklet and Settings Data”. It’ll give you a URL you can save to your bookmarks and use.
Depending on your browser you can set the custom URL as a search engine and always keep your settings, no cookies needed
To be fair, I do wish more privacy-friendly browsers took DDG mobile’s approach, namely torch all sites but make it really easy to (and prompt you to) whitelist frequently used ones.
Not if you use a private browser. They save that setting using cookies, which usually are deleted when you close the browser.
Which highlights how dumb that setup is (by which I mean using cookies for settings). The privacy-friendly search engine compromises your privacy with AI when you use a private browser
You can change the settings to your heart’s content, then scroll to the bottom and click “Show Bookmarklet and Settings Data”. It’ll give you a URL you can save to your bookmarks and use.
Depending on your browser you can set the custom URL as a search engine and always keep your settings, no cookies needed
Yeah, that’s problematic, heh.
To be fair, I do wish more privacy-friendly browsers took DDG mobile’s approach, namely torch all sites but make it really easy to (and prompt you to) whitelist frequently used ones.