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I'll try to use it but those news on the search page... I'm there to search, not to read news.

There is an addon for Firefox to use it as a search engine:

https://addons.mozilla.org/it/firefox/addon/qwantcom-for-fir...

It was possible to close and turn off the news panels and it is possible to see only web results (by clicking on the left panel). This choice is unfortunately not remembered.

The downside of being "cookie free" - instant forgetting of your preferences.

Not really - it seems that you can set your settings and get url that remembers them.

"If you haven't created a Qwant account to save your settings, you can use the following link as a homepage or drag it into your bookmarks: https://www.qwant.com/?l=en&h=0&hc=1&a=1&s=1&b=1&i=1&r=US&sr...

Well that's nice and all, but how is a typical user supposed to find and understand that? (Also drag it into your bookmarks? I don't know a single user who will understand that that's a thing.)

I believe you can choose what you'd like to see.

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