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The force-feeding of AI features on an unwilling public

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451 points imartin2k | 5 comments | 06 Jul 25 06:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.83s | source
1. ataru ◴[06 Jul 25 07:59 UTC] No.44478721[source]▶
I noticed that some of his choices contributed to his problem. I haven't been forced into accepting AI (so far) while I've been using duckduckgo for search, libreoffice, protonmail, and linux.
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2. hambes ◴[06 Jul 25 11:06 UTC] No.44479643[source]▶
even ddg has integrated AI now and while it can be disabled, the privacy aspect seems to mean that ddg regularily forgets my settings and re-enables the ai features.

maybe i'm doing something wrong here, but even ddg is annoying me with this.

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3. yunwal ◴[06 Jul 25 13:01 UTC] No.44480463[source]▶
I agree it’s annoying that the setting seem to change all the time, but you can use noai.duckduckgo.com
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4. yegg ◴[06 Jul 25 15:09 UTC] No.44481387{3}[source]▶
The settings don’t change, but they are stored in anonymous local storage, so if that is cleared they go away. If you use our browsers though this is managed through the browser.
5. frm88 ◴[07 Jul 25 07:06 UTC] No.44487495{3}[source]▶
Wow! Thank you for that url, I didn't know that. Changed my default search engine to this and am - finally - rid of ddg settings getting annoyingly reset all the time!