General Discussion

It’s pretty decent. I don’t like that they are now Microsoft associated. But it’s a really good search engine and browser. I never see any ads and I can (and do) turn off duck.ai. I do not use any ai.

It’s privacy focused and non-intrusive. I tried Brave, Opera, Mozilla and somehow never took to them.

The real reason I started using DDG was a deep, enduring and ineradicable hatred of Google, which my hateful former employer humps. DDG was an early Google basher. But now it is habit.

Proton also has decent privacy focused services as the user above mentioned. I switched to Protonmail a decade ago and never looked back. Again, hatred for all things Google was a prime driver.