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Version 1: Mozilla Firefox

Step 1: Go to your search settings. Easiest way to do this is by clicking the search engine icon on your URL bar

and selecting Search Settings

Step 2: Scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page and find the section called Search Shortcuts. Now click the Add button (ignore the fact that I already have NoAI DuckDuckGo added; it's fine)

Step 3: Add noai.duckduckgo.com as a search engine

The search engine name doesn't matter, but the URL is very important. You want to type, exactly: "https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?ia=web&q=%s" (excluding the quotation marks). Once you've entered that, click Save Engine.

Congrats! You've added a search engine to your web browser.

Step 4: Set your newly-added search engine to be your default. Scroll back up to the top of the page, click the drop down menu under Default Search Engine, and select your new NoAI DuckDuckGo engine.

Firefox saves settings automatically, so you've now successfully configured your browser to run all of your browser URL searchs in noai.duckduckgo.com without any additional effort on your part.

Version 2: Microsoft Edge

Step 1: Go to your search settings. Edge is annoying, so search settings are harder to get to. One way is via the meatballs menu at the top right:

clicking on Settings and then running a search in the browser settings for "search engine":

Click on the "Search engines" result and then into the settings menu itself to get to this screen:

which has all of your search engines listed.

Step 2: Click on the "Add search engine" button indicated in the image above and add noai.duckduckgo.com as a search engine:

Again, the search engine name doesn't matter. The shortcut needs to be "noai.duckduckgo.com" (excluding quotation marks) and the URL needs to be, exactly, "https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?ia=web&q=%s" (excluding the quotation marks). Once you've entered all of that information, click "Add."

Congrats! You've added a search engine to Edge.

Step 3: Set your newly-added search engine to be your default by clicking on the meatballs menu beside the search engine name and selecting "Make default":

You've now successfully configured your browser to run all of your browser URL searchs in noai.duckduckgo.com without any additional effort on your part.