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[–]asdfzsdf 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Do some further research before spreading misinformation. This has been fixed & merged into master: https://github.com/duckduckgo/Android/pull/878

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

This was still sketchy af and DuckDuckGo is also sketchy in the search results it produces. StartPage is slightly better

[–]wrongthink 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I could be remembering this wrong but I thought last year startpage sold itself to a shady company.

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Quite possible. I mean, they need to make money to keep their servers running. The only private search engine is one you build yourself by scraping the net. Outside of that, privacy is a pipe dream with search engines