Yea, I switched to Brave browser over a year ago when I realized Firefox was tweaking things. Tried startpage but I didn't like it. Too many sponsored adds at the top of the search. Also, with the stuff I research I didn't notice any difference in the results from what I was getting from the rest of the censored engines. I dropped DDG and switched to Brave search and Qwant. So far, Qwant doesn't seem to be filtering my searches and the results are coming up like they used to on DDG. I haven't played with Brave search much, so they jury is still out on them. Yandex has language issues but it is okay. I refuse to use Google translate so navigating Yandex has been a pain.