TIL: DDG, which purports to "respect your privacy", is not actually a search engine; it's a meta search engine/search aggregator. It also doesn't do what it claims to.

The app/"engine" sources material from Bing, Stack Exchange, AWS and other places that don't respect your privacy. I guess I've learned my lesson about blindly trusting an organisation's words without doing my due diligence about their actions.

It's high time for me to go give Brave Search some serious scrutiny, see if Eich and co have built a better alternative that actually delivers on its promise. What I'd really like to see is a search engine that allows one to blacklist certain domains (or at least warns one about potential privacy violations/trackers on those sites, ALA Web of Trust and crowd-sourcing similar to what AlternativeTo uses for reporting malware, adware and bundleware). Seeing as Brave Search is still young, perhaps it might be worth adding that as a feature request if it isn't one already.

Fool me once; shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me!