Apart from the browser.ml.* config the newest update also adds and activates the @perplexity search shortcut.
Deleted it in my config. I'm solely relying on DuckDuckGo.
Deleted it in my config. I'm solely relying on DuckDuckGo.
I've been fully on DDG for years but becoming slowly skeptical & looking for alternatives.
1. They're leaning heavily into "responsible AI", much like Mozilla
2. Might be just me but I feel like their algorithm became significantly worse recently. Over the years they've gone from being worse than Google in the early days to steadily improving & overtaking Google on quality (I made heavy use of !g until I started slowly realising it was no longer giving me better results). But now I feel like they've reversed & regressed again.
(though it might be a case of there simply being no good search anymore)