[viach]

Do you know that DDG is just a sophisticated proxy to another search engine under the hood, which probably has even lower standards for privacy than Google and using DDG you indirectly support it?

[StevePerkins]

Well, yeah... hence the point of a proxy.

[FabHK]

1. Yes, and that proxying provides value (privacy)

2. There's more to it, such as the bangs, keyboard-based result selection, etc.