Since DuckDuckGo introduced AI search I switched to Qwant. Now they also force you to look at stupid and sponsored AI slop results. As these are both privacy focused sites I am starting to wonder if we will lose real search (i.e. I click on links I think are interesting) Switching to startpage.com for now.
They have this
https://noai.duckduckgo.com/
No turning off needed.
Also startpage have ads iirc, it’s okay search engine if you don’t mind. Sometime i switch to startpage and i find something that google just doesn’t show. I get mixed result from ddg.