[leereeves]

As a DDG user I don't feel like I'm sacrificing anything. Two sets of results are better than one (I can see Google results by adding !g, which I do less than once per day on average) and, ironically, DDG bangs are the easiest way to use even Google services like Translate and Scholar.

[itsmeamario]

Same for me. Privacy is why I came, bangs are the reason I stay.

[abc-xyz]

Ask.Moe also support bangs (I know !g and !gt works, not sure about scholar). Searx doesn’t but I imagine they’d gladly accept a pull request for it.

[leereeves]

I don't know much about those search engines. What's the advantage of Ask.Moe or Searx?

[abc-xyz]

For me the fact that they’re open source. This thread is a prime example of why it’s so important. We really have no idea what DuckDuckGo is doing because they’re closed source. For all we know they could be forwarding users’ IP to Microsoft/Yandex/etc.

If you want to market yourself as a champion of privacy, then the absolute minimum criteria should in my opinion be that your codebase is open source.