[jhanoncomm]

That is one performance metric. What about energy use and loading search results not just the home page. I find DDG faster from a perception point of view. I imagine on sone metrics it is faster.

[nolist_policy]

Sorry, should have been more precise. I was measuring loading search results. E.g.:

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-e&q=test9999

vs.

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ftsa&q=test9999&ia=web

[ponector]

Did you measure time user needs to scroll and click reject google cookies?