Settings in “No AI” DuckDuckGo

Replied to You Don't Need the DuckDuckGo noai Subdomain by Chris Wiegman (chriswiegman.com) There’s a lot of hype about accessing DuckDuckGo via its “noai” subdomain. It works, but there’s a better way. Instead of using a special domain to access DuckDuckGo, a method that works, but not in every situation, you can just use the normal DuckDuckGo domain, without AI and customizable even further to serve your needs. Back on June 8, 2026, Chris Wiegman published a blog post titled You Don’t Need the DuckDuckGo noai Subdomain. For those not in the know, noai.duckduckgo.com is a subdomain of DuckDuckGo search which removes DuckDuckGo’s new “AI” features. I wrote about how to add the “noai” version of DuckDuckGo as a search engine to Chromium- and Firefox-based web browsers back in January in Adding noai.duckduckgo.com as Custom Search Engine. Mr. Wiegman writes regarding a “better way” to use DuckDuckGo without AI features than the noai subdomain: Instead of using a special domain to access…