"privacy" Recommending DuckDuckGo is like recommending Ghostery for privacy. For now the chain looks like this: Amazon Web Services -> DuckDuckGo -> Yahoo ->

"privacy" Recommending DuckDuckGo is like recommending Ghostery for privacy. For now the chain looks like this: Amazon Web Services -> DuckDuckGo -> Yahoo -> Microsoft Privacy is not the more intermediaries you add, the more private you become. Same as adding a VPN or a proxy, you just become vulnerable to the proxy operator and all their intermediates and dependencies. And yes DuckDuckGo is tracking, for example, everything you buy on Amazon. They are Amazon Affiliates, and as part of how Amazon Affiliates work DuckDuckGo has access to the precise list of items that users bought. Yes, Cloudflare, NordVPN and DuckDuckGo and Brave and you have the perfect "privacy" setup. If you want to believe, then go ahead.