Nope, you were just plain wrong.

The odds would have been in your favor if you have said "odds are a search engine chosen at random does this too".

But, instead, you said: "odds are DDG does this too", thus binding the odds to DDG.

Since the general stance of DDG is pro privacy, you should have reasoned that the odds were in favor of DDG NOT doing this.

(Not to mention that posting that you "were close" didn't provide anything to the discussion --apart from some ill-conceived face saving from your part).