> Because although DDG are using Bing as a backend, presumably they are not forwarding on cookie data or my ip address to Bing. Why would anybody default to be

> Because although DDG are using Bing as a backend, presumably they are not forwarding on cookie data or my ip address to Bing. Why would anybody default to believing that to be the case? DuckDuckGo has built their faux privacy-focused search engine on Microsoft's not-privacy-respecting Bing foundation. They use, benefit from and monetize whatever privacy abuses Microsoft have utilized to provide Bing results (to get the data to the point where it's at now). I've never seen any evidence they have qualms with the moral stench of that, of swimming in that sewer. No, we don't get the oil from Russia, we buy it from a guy that buys it from Russia. Our hands are clean.