@georgia@dickkickextremist.xyz yes, actually it is google, that's my point. DDG does not crawl the web, it sends your query to Google, Bing, Yahoo and others and curates the results it gets from those.

It is true that your data is not forwarded (so they say and I believe them) but to me the fact that Google can act as a gatekeeper to information is worse than data collection, and DDG doesn't solve that problem.