tldr; After some research I found that including ?kbg=-1 to the url disables the AI feature. So, you can disable AI permanently using the following as your search engine configuration (which is available at least on Librewolf)

https://duckduckgo.com/search?q=%25s&kbg=-1

or you can temporary disable the feature by including -noai to your search query.

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Been using ddg for over 4 years and I feel it is getting slower these days. Or is it just me?

Startpage and other search engines loads fine. Also, I’m using Librewolf so the problem is not the cache.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    6 个月前

    Is the AI on?

    I don’t stay signed in, don’t even have an account, and I’ve noticed it randomly pops up sometimes and it takes a second, others it skips it and it’s instant.

    • Zachariah@lemmy.world
      2·
      6 个月前

      add -noai to your searches to make sure it’s off even if you’re not signed in (and in private browsing)

      • fin@sh.itjust.worksOP
        3·
        5 个月前

        This was the problem. With noai it started loading very quick. Thank you so much.

        I really didn’t mean to say AI bad through this post but… this is horrible

  • teft@piefed.socialEnglish
    3·
    6 个月前

    I’ve had the same problem recently. Using firefox with uBo. Any time i search for images it takes 10 seconds to load the results. I refuse to use google so i’ll deal with it but it’s pretty annoying.