DDG has an entrypoint with AI features disabled at https://noai.duckduckgo.com/

verdverm an hour ago | parent | next [-]

how long will that last and be given effort?

the direction they want to go is clear for me, similar to proton

No student is going to use that over the default.

The point is that if a school wants to use DDG but not AI, DDG is going to happily oblige them, not pull this stunt like Google.

	▲	lokar an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Years ago Google did the same thing for “safe search”, a url schools could allow.
	▲	verdverm an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		I turned off all Ai features, then DDG added their search summaries, despite my setting for no ai DDG pulls stunts too I'm moving to API based search options, using multiple, and rendering them as markdown for myself or my agent
	▲	charcircuit an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Source: you made it up.