DuckDuckGo's Biggest Privacy Flaw

I don’t see this as necessarily being DDG’s problem to solve. They are (supposedly) protecting my search data from third party use.

Protecting my browser history is my browser’s problem to solve. Which most browsers do via a privacy mode.

These two are orthogonal. I may want to keep my (possibly, not even controversial) browser history for ease-of-use reasons but still want to withhold my data from the Cambridge Analytica’s of the world.

I agree that naive users might make false assumptions about what DDG is doing that lead to a poorer privacy outcome, but I’d argue that people need to also step up a little with respect to their self-education. No one can truly claim to be concerned about privacy while not be doing the basics, such as ensuring their ‘sensitive’ browsing isn’t recorded locally by their browser.

I've always been skeptical of DuckDuckGo. Some people say it's linked to Google...I'm don't buy that. However, search engines in general are tough to truly know how they work.