10 DuckDuckGo Features Beyond Private Search That Improve Everyday Browsing
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DuckDuckGo offers more than just private search. This article highlights 10 useful features including turning off AI integration, sending searches directly to other sites, hiding AI-generated images, blocking junk domains, expanding shortened links, and using private email aliases. It provides practical settings and shortcuts to make DuckDuckGo cleaner, faster, and more useful for everyday searching.
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DuckDuckGo also has practical features that make everyday searching faster and cleaner.
If DuckDuckGo is already your default search engine, these are the settings and shortcuts I would set up first.
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