“Hey guys”, DDG is like 15 years old already, partners with Bing, and seems to give IP location-based search results in “private” mode.
DuckDuckGo censors just like Google.
Their CEO is trash.
Federated is the only way.
Edit: To clarify, they are controlled opposition who serve the same master.
The best be right now is https://searx.space like https://searx.garudalinux.org or similar.
Kagi has become my main search engine
Honestly, Searx is better, and you can add ddg as an engine and still maintain your privacy from them.
https://search.brave.com/ is the one
DuckDuckGo is just Bing, Brave’s is at least it’s own search engine, that grows with every unique search.
Moving to Brave Search from Google is just very invasive spyware to less invasive spyware.
I can’t decide whether to upvote this for the good recommendation it makes, or downvote it for the spammy YT channel “Hey Guys” and the really obvious well known nature of the whole post.
I can confirm I did not intend to put any effort at all into making it sound non-spammy and bot-like
Its better than Google shit