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Assuming they’re doing what they say they’re doing, DDG is excellent for privacy.
I personally use DDG, although echo some others that you may have to be a little more specific when searching for some things to get good results. If results aren’t to my liking, I’ll use some other privacy-respecting search engines such as Brave Search and Startpage.
As with any search engine hosted by someone other than yourself, you essentially have to trust their privacy policy.
DDG’s privacy policy is actually fairly simple:
Assuming they’re doing what they say they’re doing, DDG is excellent for privacy.
I personally use DDG, although echo some others that you may have to be a little more specific when searching for some things to get good results. If results aren’t to my liking, I’ll use some other privacy-respecting search engines such as Brave Search and Startpage.
The “Privacy Statement” of Brave Search is somewhat weird tbh. Not clear, Obfuscated.