Yes, this is what I did as well for almost a year. Except that I eventually realized the frequency at which I had to add a !g in front of the query was above 5

Yes, this is what I did as well for almost a year. Except that I eventually realized the frequency at which I had to add a !g in front of the query was above 50%. I really wish I could use ddg as my default search engine. It's just not feasible.