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Seems a bit off-topic for the concrete issue.

Advertising your Twitter for the advice of "switch to somewhat well-known browser X, install these very common extensions and use a VPN" is also a bit ... odd.

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An ex DuckDuckGo employee recommending people use an alternative browser over the DuckDuckGo browser, in a post about the DuckDuckGo browser spying on its users, is about as on topic as you can get; after the current employee giving an explanation.

They said "worked with" duckduckgo. I'm not clear on what that means. I think they'd have said "worked for" if it was direct employment.

Privacy-focused web browsers; alternative to DDG browser due to this issue among others.

I think it’s significant that a former DDG employee is advocating switching away from the DDG browser.

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