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I'm talking about for anything.

I ask because, although I am wary about the effects of AI and things made with it, I can't help but notice it's becoming a bigger part of my every day life.

It's just so convenient to use it as an assistant where I can get answers to difficult or obscure questions on the fly.

I'm imaging this might be part of the ploy by AI companies. Once AI is so integrated in our lives, we won't want to do without it. It'd be like taking away electricity.

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[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

In ddg, you can customize your options and on the right there's a button/box to get the specific ddg link with them all pre-set. Replace the normal ddg "link" for your search bar with that one and you don't need to worry about cookies or settings following you.

[–] callyral@pawb.social 2 points 17 hours ago

Thanks! It's the bookmarlet URL, didn't know that existed.

[–] Sergio@piefed.social 1 points 16 hours ago

Pardon me, but is it possible to do this in Firefox?

I like the ddg search engine but dislike the "keyboard shortcuts" setting. From your advice, it looks like I can turn it off in a URL with https://duckduckgo.com/?kbj=1&kk=-1 which is a great start.

Ideally I'd like to be able to type my search query in the address bar, hit enter, and have it search with that URL (i.e. without keyboard settings) by default. You say "Replace the normal ddg “link” for your search bar with that one..." but I can't figure out how to do that in Firefox. Any tips? Thanks.