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   Gerry McGovern (gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green)'s status on Sunday, 13-Apr-2025 22:45:52 JST Gerry McGovern

   @duckduckgo
   I don’t want your crappy AI answers that you force onto me. You won’t allow me to stop getting your AI crap, so now I plan to stop using you.

   Anyone know a good search engine that isn’t full of AI crap?

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     Chris Wiegman (chris@mastodon.chriswiegman.com)'s status on Sunday, 13-Apr-2025 22:45:51 JST Chris Wiegman

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     @gerrymcgovern I’ve just turned it off on DDG and sync those settings between my machines. Is that not working for you?

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     Chris Wiegman (chris@mastodon.chriswiegman.com)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 00:40:06 JST Chris Wiegman

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     @gerrymcgovern Oh weird. I wonder if that's a geo thing. It's allowed me to completely turn off the feature on both mobile and desktop

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     Gerry McGovern (gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 00:40:08 JST Gerry McGovern

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     • Chris Wiegman

     @chris I’m using it on mobile and it gives me two options; occasional and regular but no off. Such absolute arrogance.

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     Chris Wiegman (chris@mastodon.chriswiegman.com)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 00:50:47 JST Chris Wiegman

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     @gerrymcgovern oh good. Was about to post a screenshot of where I had found them (just grabbed my phone to make sure I wasn’t missing something). Glad you found it.

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     Gerry McGovern (gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 00:50:48 JST Gerry McGovern

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     • Chris Wiegman

     @chris Thanks for all the help. I went to settings and found a way. When I first saw the AI results, I clicked on the ... beside them and that only gave me two options: to get these results frequently or occasionally. But Settings seems to have a way to turn them off.