Huh I’m also a regular DDG user but I never have that experience.

For 9 of 10 search DDG give me what I’m looking for in the top results, for the other time I just add g! to the search and its sends me to google.

For me the direct opposite is true. About two years ago Google stopped giving me any accurate results, feeding me a bunch of semi-related garbage instead. DuckDuckGo feels like the Google of old: results that actually (literally) contain the terms of the query and not much else. I’d hate using the internet without it.

Yeah, have had a similar experience. I find the more specific or niche a question is, the better google is at finding relevant pages. DDG is perfectly fine the rest of the time, though, so I keep it as the default.

I usually forget I’m using it. Exception is for work - I frequently have to specify g! to get Stackoverflow results to show up at the top.

The android app is nice, especially the app tracking blocker. It takes up the VPN connection tho