Dear Tor Project,

I'm disputing the legitimacy of Duckduckgo being Tor browser's default search engine.

This is how the URL should look:
podbean.com/podcast-detail/5bakh-79e4c/The-Breakdown-Podcast 

This is the spyware Duckduckgo does:
duckduckgo.com/l/?uddg=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.podbean.com%2Fpodcast%2Ddetail%2F5bakh%2D79e4c%2FThe%2DBreakdown%2DPodcast&rut=5c2461ff3cf9724900b2808b2011523bc08f4b82046e913bb14471790466518c

Further, once you click the link, the websites themselves have Duckduckgo's 3rd party javascript inserted into the page load, such as "improving.duckduckgo.com" to report back to their AI your behavior on the site itself.  And then on top of that, Duckduckgo is just front-end for Bing, but it's hosted on Microsoft's servers.  So Microsoft hiding from Microsoft is a conflict of interest.

How many times have we all accidentally mistyped a URL, where we meant to go to the site itself, but that then got searched on Duckduckgo's AI.  Sucks if it's an Onion address, at least let me turn search off?!

Final kicker. In 2022, Duckduckgo's CEO Gabriel Weinberg said they are actively censoring "Russian misinformation", that later turned out to be true, when 2 years later the CIA purposefully leaked to the New York Times that they had military bases in Ukraine PRIOR to Putin's invasion. Further the Times admits that Putin was correct for accusing the US of militarizing Ukraine BEFORE he invaded. [1]

The official Tor Project website goes on and on about protecting whistleblowers.  So why is this the sole default choice for anonymous whistleblowers, if we're just repeating the CIA's narrative with AI spyware? 

 For browser on android is also loaded with trackers 

 Tor* 

 I dropped DuckDuckGo years ago and have been using startpage 

 I used to like & use DDG search and occasionally the DDG browser, but have abandoned both almost entirely.

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 What search engine would you recommend? Been wanting to drop DuckDuckGo for a while 

 I've been testing out Mojeek
https://www.mojeek.com/ 

 Perhaps because #DuckDuckGo has a html onion version if their search page which works on the "safest" setting level... 

Also, DDG claim to source results from their own index, plus topic-specific sites and #Bing so apparently it's not just a front-end for Bing. 

P.S. I like #Stract engine, #opensource and independent index:
https://stract.com/ 

 *of their search page...