I don't know what to think of partnering with Bing and Yahoo or for using AWS. I don't see those as particularly bad for a search engine that's starting from sc

I don't know what to think of partnering with Bing and Yahoo or for using AWS. I don't see those as particularly bad for a search engine that's starting from scratch. Maybe we should expect more from DDG since it's no longer the new kid on the block and has money to reduce or eliminate such dependencies. I always take care of cookies and tracking to the extent I can. So I don't know what else I can do to avoid using DDG or even Google (which I resort to for searches where DDG is inadequate). > DDG is currently collecting users’ operating systems and everything they highlight in the search results. (to verify this, simply hit F12 in your browser and select the “network” tab. Do a search with javascript enabled. Highlight some text on the screen. Mouseover the traffic rows and see that your highlighted text, operating system, and other details relating to geolocation are sent to DDG. Then change the query and submit. Notice that the previous query is being transmitted with the new query to link the queries together) FWIW, I couldn't find this behavior (or maybe I didn't figure out how to exactly check this) even when blocking nothing on DDG. Can someone confirm if this is true (or was true in the past but no longer true)?