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Disable AI in Firefox

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1. __fst__ ◴[] No.45697275[source]
Apart from the browser.ml.* config the newest update also adds and activates the @perplexity search shortcut.

Deleted it in my config. I'm solely relying on DuckDuckGo.

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2. lucideer ◴[] No.45697483[source]
> I'm solely relying on DuckDuckGo

I've been fully on DDG for years but becoming slowly skeptical & looking for alternatives.

1. They're leaning heavily into "responsible AI", much like Mozilla

2. Might be just me but I feel like their algorithm became significantly worse recently. Over the years they've gone from being worse than Google in the early days to steadily improving & overtaking Google on quality (I made heavy use of !g until I started slowly realising it was no longer giving me better results). But now I feel like they've reversed & regressed again.

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3. mikae1 ◴[] No.45697686[source]
https://startpage.com is a Google proxy instead of a Bing proxy (like DDG).
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4. arcanemachiner ◴[] No.45697955{3}[source]
Pretty sure startpage sold out years ago...
5. frm88 ◴[] No.45698913[source]
For now you can still try noai.duckduckgo.com - not sure it will stay, but it still works.
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6. lucideer ◴[] No.45702694{3}[source]
This is great to avoid ai but doesn't solve the index quality decline.

(though it might be a case of there simply being no good search anymore)