Remember whether it may look things up

The reasoning checkbox beside it was remembered and this one was not, so ticking
it, closing the panel and coming back read as a save that had failed.

Plugin/unraid/include/ai_chat.php

@@ -1803,6 +1803,23 @@ vv_ai_profiles_script();
         if (w) w.hidden = !seeEl.checked || !t || !t.textContent;
       });
     }
+    // Remembered like the reasoning checkbox beside it. It was not, and the two sitting together
+    // behaving differently is its own bug: neither has a Save button, so one that forgets reads
+    // as one that failed to save. Ticked, closed and reopened, it had reverted — which is why no
+    // web search had ever actually run.
+    //
+    // Remembering a tick is not the same as defaulting it on. The conf ships this off because
+    // sending a question outside the house is the operator's decision to make rather than one to
+    // inherit; honouring that decision until they change it is the point, not a weakening of it.
+    const webEl = o.webEl ? document.getElementById(o.webEl) : null;
+    if (webEl) {
+      const WEB_KEY = 'vvAiWeb:' + P;
+      try { webEl.checked = localStorage.getItem(WEB_KEY) === '1'; } catch (_) {}
+      webEl.addEventListener('change', () => {
+        try { localStorage.setItem(WEB_KEY, webEl.checked ? '1' : '0'); } catch (_) {}
+      });
+    }
+
     const newBtn = $('new'); if (newBtn) newBtn.addEventListener('click', newChat);
 
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