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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.

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

Years ago Google did the same thing for “safe search”, a url schools could allow.