> DDG is known to be backed by Yandex search engine. IIRC, DDG is a privacy-preserving metasearch engine. That means it farms your query out to other search e

> DDG is known to be backed by Yandex search engine. IIRC, DDG is a privacy-preserving metasearch engine. That means it farms your query out to other search engines and then combines the results. I think it started by proxying Google searches to hide your metadata from Google. > This means that your request's metadata is already reported to Russian government services. This sound like FUD. Why would a metasearch engine send anything out to the search engines it proxies besides the query? It might not even have to make that query for your request if someone else made it recently.