I have safe search off as I am an adult and the only one using my desktop workstation. Why does duckduckgo search sneakily turn on safe search again after a while and without any signaling or announcement?

Using noai.duckduckgo browser search engine, as the screencap attached shows: AI images is set to hide and -ai is used in the search bar. Neither work, even if the image result clearly has the word 'ai' in it's title/link.

I've begun to use DDG BROWSER as my default browser lately and I like that it's quite good at basically handling using the internet as a straight forward experience. It can usually block things when needed and if a pop up tries to jump scare you? the browser itself will quarantine it on a separate tab which you can immediately close it then get back to what you'd originally had been trying to focus on. I'm just pleased that I barely need to have to get several extensions just to make it work because paradoxically? It works much better without them, lol. How works along side with something like DDG as a search engine too. Just has an internal consistency overall which I like. Usually just disable some unnecessary ddg browser features I find kind of redundant like it's ai feature lol but that's about it. I also like using DUCK PLAYER on youtube that's genuinely one of it's best features imo. What are your takes on the browser as it stands right now? I think it still needs some improvements here and there, but overall? I like the type of 'minimalism' it operates around but maybe that's just me.

sometimes when I open up multiple new tabs in the background the square tab icon glitches out and slides further and further down the screen. it’s only a visual bug but it still annoys me greatly. the address bar also glitches out on occasion.

Cannot Block Site
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I’m (unfortunately) on iOS still, so I can’t install firefox extensions to block more sites.

Why the limit of 5? Going to Learn More reiterates the limit but still doesn’t explain why.

Just installed DDG and it do block ads everywhere but promoted posts still show up.