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   AI6YR Ben (ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Aug-2025 07:59:07 JST AI6YR Ben

   Hmm, new Duckduck go image filter offers up a "hide AI images" feature. Bravo! #AI #duckduckgo

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     AI6YR Ben (ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Aug-2025 07:59:06 JST AI6YR Ben

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     Also this...

     "...if you want a search experience without AI-generated images, without Search Assist answers, and without Duck.ai prompts and entry points, start your searches on noai.duckduckgo.com instead of duckduckgo.com...."

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     AI6YR Ben (ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Aug-2025 08:09:22 JST AI6YR Ben

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     @jstevenyork Yes, this works.

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     Steve's Place (steter@mastodon.stevesworld.co)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Aug-2025 08:09:22 JST Steve's Place

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     @ai6yr @jstevenyork Yep. Just changed firefox, and tested it.

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     J. Steven York RESISTS (jstevenyork@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Aug-2025 08:09:23 JST J. Steven York RESISTS

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     @ai6yr
     If there's a way to trick Firefox or Chrome into doing this by default, I haven't found it. Firefox has a SETTING for it, but when you add the site, it insists it's an incorrect URL and I need to fix it. Chrome just has check boxes for "popular" search engines, and no visible URLs at all. There may be something farther down in the weeds to enter it manually, but I haven't found it yet if so.

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     AI6YR Ben (ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Aug-2025 08:09:23 JST AI6YR Ben

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     • J. Steven York RESISTS

     @jstevenyork Maybe try this:

     https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-custom-search-engine-firefox

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     J. Steven York RESISTS (jstevenyork@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Aug-2025 08:15:48 JST J. Steven York RESISTS

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     @ai6yr
     That's exactly what I already tried, and exactly what doesn't work. Didn't realized I needed a fully formatted http url, but that doesn't fix it either.

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     Steve's Place (steter@mastodon.stevesworld.co)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Aug-2025 08:15:48 JST Steve's Place

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     @jstevenyork @ai6yr I went to noai.duckduckgo.com and made a search for "test." Then I cut the resulting URL from the left, up to where "test" was. I pasted it into the search URL setup in Firefox, inserted "%s" where "test" had been, and it works for me in Firefox in Linux Mint.

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     kyle (kyle@mastodon.ie)'s status on Thursday, 28-Aug-2025 00:17:00 JST kyle

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     @steter @jstevenyork @ai6yr Thanks this helped me too! I did run into an issue actually being able to add a new search engine though (there was no "add" button), and needed to create a new about:config entry. This reddit post helped:
     https://www.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/1d1uomm/since_firefox_removed_the_add_button_heres_how_to/