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I really don’t see the issue here. It’s completely understandable that DDG would not want to offer an easy API for this. This is likely seen as a “DDG app” feat

I really don’t see the issue here. It’s completely understandable that DDG would not want to offer an easy API for this. This is likely seen as a “DDG app” feature exactly like Safari’s Hide My Email and like every browser’s password manager. They could offer an external UI, but this is a beta and DDG is not an ISP. If you want email forwarding, you already have plenty of choices — and catch-all addresses and plus signs.

stubish 4y ago
It is cognitive dissonance, with DDG. A large proportion of their users are exactly the sort of people who will not thoughtlessly install unnecessary extensions into their browsers. It is increasing attack surface, when minimizing should be a goal of privacy services. By the time you end up at DDG, you usually have been trained not to click on untrusted links and not to install dodgy browser extensions 'for your chance to win', and then confronted with a push to install what appears to all intents and purposes to be a dodgy browser extension.