without stupid adblockblock https://archive.is/whZuI
also i wouldn’t install their extension just for that, you can edit your default search engine to anu address you want in the settings
browser extensions are a huge privacy risk and i wouldn’t trust ddg with my data because of their Microsoft deal, not to block their trackers (they reverted that part after the backlash) in the ddg browser and to only show msn under their news tab in regular ddg
Searxng, a metasearch engine, and better, self hosted in a container. Easy, searches a stupid amount of engines, 100% private.
or “Degoog”, which is an alternative that works pretty good as well: https://degoog.org/
I’m sure the search engines log the IP, and with enough searches could be correlated back to you fairly easily even if you host it on a VPS? Unless it does some kind of mitigation I’m unaware of.