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  • The only problem with not deleting all cookies with some automatic tool is it will make it easier to fingerprint you. Anything difference with your browser’s behaviour is fingerprintable.

    Also, check your this section from the Arkenfox wiki (made by experts on browser fingerprinting):

    🟪 DON’T BOTHER: Cookie extensions

    - ❗️Sanitizing in-session is a false sense of privacy. They do nothing for IP tracking. Even Tor Browser does not sanitize in-session e.g. when you request a new circuit. A new ID requires both full sanitizing and a new IP. The same applies to Firefox
    - ❗️Cookie extensions can lack APIs or implementation of them to properly sanitize: e.g.
        - ⚠️ [last checked Nov 2024], Cookie Auto Delete even instructs it's users to disable Total Cookie Protection - ⚠️ DO NOT DO THIS ⚠️
    
            "As of Firefox 86, strict mode is not supported at this time due to missing APIs to handle the Total Cookie Protection [... followed by instructions]"
    








  • You can disable that. Here are two links that disable that. Add it to Firefox or Chromium through the settings.

    Simple, only disables AI answers: https://duckduckgo.com/?kbe=0&q=%s

    Long, disables AI answers and ads: https://duckduckgo.com/?kak=-1&kax=-1&kbe=0&k1=-1&q=%s

    Steps to create a custom DDG search config:

    • Visit: https://duckduckgo.com/settings
    • Select the settings you want, for example dark mode.
    • Click the “Show Bookmarklet and Settings Data” button.
    • Copy the link, using my dark mode scenario would yield the URL https://duckduckgo.com/?kae=d
    • Edit the URL by adding &q=%s to the end, which acts as a placeholder for the browser to replace with your actual search query. Using my example https://duckduckgo.com/?kae=d&q=%s
    • Last step is add it to your browser. May differ between browsers, but generally look in the search engines tab of the settings.