I use both services, and yes, it does somewhat bother me that they run on the back of much less scrupulous search engines. But a search engine, to be effective, is a tremendous undertaking in code and server-side hosting, and I doubt either one could make a competent search engine itself.

One thing I WOULD like to see, though, it DuckDuckGo deferring to StartPage for image and video results. That would be more secure ... forwarding an image search directly to Google DOES result in getting tracked. Unfortunately, I feel like there is some sort of commercial competition between the two that prevents them cooperating.

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