Link: https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/01/duckduckgo-makes-its-no-ai-search-engine-easier-to-access-as-its-traffic-booms/

Taking advantage of a growing movement with 30% week-over-week increase on their page.

There are also other excellent alternatives, though: Kagi, Qwant, Ecosia and Startpage.

Find one that works for you, and make the switch!

I swapped to Qwant a few weeks ago and I've been happy so far! It's very smooth and was straightforward to set up in Firefox on both mobile and desktop.

Kagi beats all IMO still. Makes the internet enjoyable !!

Yeah but mainline ddg has a lot of ai. I like duckduck but they are actually letting letting people slip into AI. It's cool they provide a no AI alternative too but that one I've not come across despite being a ddg user.

The NoAI should be the standard and people who wish to play with the sloppy diarrhea could put those features on in the settings - not the other way around and have the settings reset after each time you clear cookies. But gee, thanks for this at least.

I recently was able to change the search engine in my browser (Firefox) from AI-DDG to the NoAI-DDG, and I did it by adding a custom search engine. The URL needed for that, in Firefox, is https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%25s

Boycott DDG. This is a trick. noai should be www and their current www should be ai. They are no better apart from merely offering an option that isn't even standard.

boycot ddg, then.. use what?

A revolving door of SearXNG instances, maybe.