Absolutely. Completely anecdotally I know but I switched to the Brave browser recently to try it out. It came with DDG installed by default so I started using i

Absolutely. Completely anecdotally I know but I switched to the Brave browser recently to try it out. It came with DDG installed by default so I started using it in the omnibar or whatever it's called. Like many here I do some coding so I've been looking up stuff to do with Ruby, Vue.js. APIs, and the lambda calculus. DDG results were not very helpful so I've gotten used to navigating to google.com just like the old days. As in, I'm so used to ctrl+t and type something to search that I had to train myself to type begin typing google.com again. Yeah, I could switch the default search engine but being forced to compare results is a good habit. These articles about how DDG is hit the front page time and again on Hackernews, this has never been my experience. I appreciate the privacy aspects 100% so I'd actually prefer if it was genuinely competitive with the big G but sadly this has never been my experience.