Lately I've been noticing a trend when I search with DuckDuckGo. DDG omits results that are unfavourable towards tech giants to a highly conspicuous degree which can only fairly be described as "evasive." Even the AI assist makes a blatant display of creatively misinterpreting questions that have inconvenient answers about tech companies like Google or Amazon, and if pressed about the reason for dodging it gives a limp "some people criticize DDG regarding unspecified partnerships, but DDG is 100% committed to your privacy (except for that one time that we failed at hiding what we did with Microsoft, whoopsie!)" non-answer.

Bye, then.

I've switched to Brave, and by god, wouldn't you know that there's more to the Internet than Amazon and Youtube? I guess maybe it's not the net that's been shrinking lately—it's the gate.

https://search.brave.com/

No more loyalty to those that sell us like chattel.