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What is you guys opinion on DuckDuckGo AI? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by CodenameDarlen@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Do you think it really doesn't train on your data?

I've been using it and it looks good so far, I just ask simple questions and never let the context get too big.

It's good that it doesn't require login, just open and ask something.

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[–] jabberwock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

For you and whomever else needs to hear it, you can solve the second part by going to https://duckduckgo.com/settings and saving the bookmark with all the options included. Then you can clear all the cookies you want and it'll always load the same settings.

[–] Calfpupa@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

If you're using cookies. In general https://noai.duckduckgo.com/ is the way to go otherwise

[–] jabberwock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sorry, I wasn't as clear in my original post.

At the bottom of the settings page you can generate a "bookmarklet" that includes the config options in your URL. So https://duckduckgo.com/ becomes https://duckduckgo.com/?kae=t if I want the Terminal color scheme. And this works without cookies. And this applies for all possible settings.

Interestingly I set my home page to a string that should disable all the AI features and I still got summaries sometimes so not sure if that's a bug, user error, or hostile UI. In either case, something like you suggest with https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?kae=t&etc=... should give you the best of both worlds.

[–] Calfpupa@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

I like this, thank you for the insight

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'd prefer this route too, but my phone browser doesn't allow users to add custom default search engines

[–] Calfpupa@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Which phone browser? You could always set it as your homepage to it if that's where you usually start out