DuckDuckGo made a deal with the devil. Due to a confidential search agreement, the DuckDuckGo browser does not block all Microsoft trackers. What’s worse, DuckDuckGo only acknowledged this “privacy hole” after it was discovered by a security researcher."
https://www.reviewgeek.com/118915/duckduckgo-isnt-as-private-as-you-thought/
Wonderful, isn't it? After the last Bing incident, then the censoring fiasco, then this.
On DDG, they made their bed, no big deal to give extra reminders.
Was funny, my wife was struggling to find stuff on Google and asked me for other search engines that might be better. I gave her a list of a few that I've tried, within a few hours of her doing her own testing she comes back that Yandex was clearly a superior search engine to others (brave search, qwant and one or two others)