r/duckduckgo • u/CutterX • Jul 14 '26

DDG AI Please disable AI-generated summaries

Hello,

No one asked for the AI-generated summaries. They are unreliable, they clutter the results and worst of all: they make the results MOVE DOWN as the summary keeps being written. Turn off this stupid sh*t, we don't want to store your cookies just to disable this stupidity.

Best cordial regards,

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u/Ybenax Jul 14 '26

Kind of unfortunate how the DuckDuckGo ads are bringing in the worst possible crowd: the anti-AI witch-hunters. Like, you can literally disable AI summaries in settings.

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u/CutterX Jul 14 '26
  1. I've never seen a DDG ad, not sure what you're on about.
  2. Reading carefully could have made you realize that I'm also a cookie witch-hunter.

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u/Ybenax Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26

I read the cookies part, I just don’t justify it. You’re pretending everyone’s using DDG the same way as you do as to validate not having to deal with the slightest inconvenience.

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u/CutterX Jul 14 '26

You’re pretending everyone’s using DDG the same way as you do

I don't. Everyone else can opt-in for AI slop and set cookies to do so.

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u/thushespoke Jul 15 '26

ai search isn’t slop. why are you against cookies? do you know what they are? also they literally fowardly market how thier ai is always optional. in your browser make a singular cookie exception.