That’s not really true. It uses multiple sources, including their own search engine, to give results. Basically the only thing they don’t include is Google. In practice Bing often produces the majority of the results, but it’s not “just Bing on the backend”. I mean, DDG is older than Bing after all, so it would be a little weird if they didn’t have their own search engine.
Even if it was just a frontend for Bing that wouldn’t really be a bad thing. Ecosia is, and that’s a pretty good search engine. Being one of millions of users all privately receiving the same anonymized results already makes Bing much less problematic.
smallaubergine@kbin.social 1 year ago
I was under the impression that DDG is pretty private and while underlying search is Bing, bing can't track the searches to individuals
Contend6248@feddit.de 1 year ago
Maybe not the individual, but you’re still training an internet giant, just a different one.