I hate DuckDuckGo as much as the next guy, but I hate it for real reasons. Its slow, the results are bad, etc. But I don't hate it for the reasons listed in that article because they are almost all speculative or some are just false. This is a pattern, people generally who work for other search engines, go on reddit and lemmy and pick a few instances of a competitor making a minor mess up and blowing it out of proportion. Seen it probably fifteen times before. I wouldn't leave ddg cause of it.