Interesting, I remember a lot of people switching from Google and even seeing billboard ads for DDG. Even Ecosia, the site I use myself, is just returning Bing results (which are somewhat less ideologically curated compared to Google results). I don't like Bing either (Microsoft are a criminal enterprise). Has anyone used another search engine to recommend for privacy and good social values?
Same here. A search I did last night, in fact: "best mecha tabletop game" returned a bunch of clickbaity articles that were mostly useless - but "best mecha tabletop game reddit" linked me a bunch of threads of people talking about and linking to what I was looking for that were way more informative.
reddit is effectively the new google. It's the best low-tech/accessible way to see what people actually talk about, and to see what those people are like.