It has to be said, they originally changed their stance due to the considerable editor pushback when they tried to introduce LLM summaries on the top of articles. So kudos to the editor community’s resistance! ✊

Thanks!

Regarding Ecosia, could it be that you deleted some related cookies accidentialy?

Not sure, I use uBlock Origin, but the site does remember my other settings, so it feels a bit shady.

Hmm thanks for the tip!

Yeah, I think I’ll give noai.duckduckgo a try.

Still, it refuses to make those buttons optional.

Not only that, back before I left Ecosia a few months ago, it kept forgetting that I turned off AI summaries. Every week or so it would turn back on… I’ll try DuckDuckGo’s noai prefix this time, that hopefully won’t have this issue. (I really like Ecosia’s mission, but come on…)

I may switch to them as my primary provider. They seem to source results from Bing, and with the noai prefix hopefully won’t keep turning on AI summary like Ecosia does 😑

Sadly Ecosia is not good for more niche topics or foreign languages. After a few months of use, I went back to Google with &udm=14 😕

Edit: Though with Google now falsifying site titles I’ll have to look for an alternative… I wonder if they do the same towards the providers that rely on them, like DuckDuckGo?

I have the same experience and it drives me nuts - if I wanted English results, I’d search in English!