I'd really love it if DDG freed their code, but it seems highly unlikely.
exactly
yes, they work very well but they don't provide Image result nor Video result
DuckDuckGo has servers on Amazon, which could be a problem:
https://duck.co/help/company/architecture
Yes. Both of those versions of the site work without JS.
and the servers the two use are different too
It is good that duckduckgo donate that money to free software or "open
source" as they like to call it. But there is an issue with duckduckgo and it
is that their javascript does not seem to be, at least, fully free as in
freedom and their non-js alternatives does not support all functionalit