It is a hilarious excuse for DDG to claim they are doing this for a favicon. Even if DDG is legitimately not using the data they are definitely collecting the d

It is a hilarious excuse for DDG to claim they are doing this for a favicon. Even if DDG is legitimately not using the data they are definitely collecting the data. The problem with that is that it requires users to "trust" DDG, which is not how the world works today. If you are a company that collects info, and you expect users to trust that the info will remain safe, secure, and never get misuse that is downright foolish for anyone to believe a word of that. We all know that DDG cannot claim it's impossible for them to get hacked and have all that data leak out. Hacks happen all the time and so the solution for DDG is to simply NOT collect the data, rather than collect and claim it's all secure. And we all also know DDG has (or will) get a NSL (National Security Letter) from the NSA to secretly turn over the data anyway, and when that does happen the DDG employees are not even allowed to admit it ever happened.