Absolutely sick of Google shoving its shitty AI in my face with no way to turn it off as well as several sponsored links before I get to anything relevant to what I searched. Looked into switching back to Microsoft Edge and I had Copilot thrust in my face, however I’m glad I can turn it off for the most part. Any experiences with Firefox? I’ve heard duckduckgo and Brave are leaning into AI and I worry it will eventually turn it on with no off switch.
You don’t seem to understand the difference between a web browser and a search engine.
DuckDuckGo feels like Google 15 years ago (in a good way!) minimal “suggested” extras - there are separate carousels for news articles and it’ll do occasional instant answers for programming questions - but 90% of the time you just get a page of results and that’s it.
You can always just give it a go and see what you think, changing a browsers search engine is just a couple of clicks into the settings.
If you’re talking about Google search. Check out How I Made Google’s “Web” View My Default Search … you can add a param to the url to prevent Google search with AI result.
If your on android use Cromite or Mull
Librewolf plus a public SearX or SearXNG instance. Or host your own. Or just use https://wiby.me/
You can get rid of it using Adguard. You can cancel sponsored links.
Firefox and duckduckgo is definitely the simplest feeling combination.
So few things to add my voice.
Most browser use chromium as engine while Firefox has their own engine. With that said, here is my setup.
Firefox beta - currently 127b7
Extension: Ublock origin / canvasblocker / privacy badger
Serach Engine: most time now is duckduckgo.
There is also additions to Firefox which is called betterfox (settings document) which makes browsing.ore safe, removes telemetry and just make experience great.
This is without doubt very privacy focused browsing with vpn.
However, everyone has their own use cases. Just sharing mine and what I prefer.
If you want most privacy and security on a browser then use:
with these extensions
I was able to manage the AI settings in DuckDuckGo in ‘AI Features’ and turn off chat and turn Assist to ‘never.’ And while your at it turn of ads in general settings and anything else you don’t like.
Brave IS an AI browser. Are there any left that are NOT AI? What about search engines? DuckDuckGo has AI beta. If people keep flocking to AI, soon we have no abiliity to delete, turn off, or block it. I do not want to support it, knowingly or unknowingly. Is anyone else here with me?
It’s a plague and we are all stuck with it. 
Switch to “Floorp” and leave all the crap behind https://floorp.app/en/
I use brave and firefox with with duckduckgo as my search engine. Brave search isnt bad either. I also use linux mint thatll keep me away from microsofts new copiloit
You can turn it off if you dont want or use uBlock orgin, right click on the ai box, and block the element
Ungoogled chromium tbh
Get used to it bro, the future is here to stay
Wow, what a helpful response! Just your typical arrogant reddit user. Grow up 
Thanks for the productive comment. Can you explain like I’m 5? I’m a total novice at this stuff and I’d like to avoid the browser being a RAM hog and the engine returning 18 irrelevant results of bloat before I get results I want. I want to jump ship from Google on all accounts.
Right? I was thinking the same thing.