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kinda hypocritical to say so considering ddg are themselves:
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pretty sure ddg is in the business of ~~green~~privacy-washing - -
what you recommend instead duck.com ?
searx or whoogle. You can try Mojeek and Gigablast if you want to try an independent engine.
Mojeek has been around for a long time now. They’re an independent ‘crawler-based’ search engine, based in the UK, with their own algorithm and index of web pages. UK ? No ty
from https://itsfoss.com/privacy-search-engines/