Which further begs the question as to why they haven't taken steps to validate something so valuable to them. Even Google open-sourced Chromium. DDG is just a

Which further begs the question as to why they haven't taken steps to validate something so valuable to them. Even Google open-sourced Chromium. DDG is just a reskin of Bing (and Yandex search). They don't have anything to lose if they violate your privacy - they can just pop up again under a different name.