Well, claiming to offer an alternative to the GAFAM while depending on their products / data / infrastructure is a bit misleading. So indeed they're doing okay

Well, claiming to offer an alternative to the GAFAM while depending on their products / data / infrastructure is a bit misleading. So indeed they're doing okay privacy wise, but a lot of users feel cheated when they realize their "independent search engine" (DuckDuckGo) is just a Bing portal hosted on Azure.