> DDG 
doesn't crawl the web itself; it pulls most results straight from Bing. That means you're still feeding into Microsoft's ecosystem indirectly. Their index, their ranking algorithms (which inherit whatever blue-pill establishment bias Bing has), their ad infrastructure. Privacy experts hammer this as the core flaw: you're escaping Google surveillance only to hand your queries (anonymized or not) to another Big Tech giant.
Use Mojeek instead