I switched to DDG even though the search results are not as good as Google's.

And not for privacy reasons either.

The reason I switched is that it has become too cumbersome to get english results from Google.

In the past I went to google.com/ncr and was good to go.

Nowadays I 1) go to google.com/ncr then 2) Need click away their cookie banner and 3) have to go to google.com/ncr again.

If I only go to google.com/ncr and click away the cookie banner, I still get results based on my location. For example, when I google "tradingview nasdaq", I want www.tradingview.com/symbols/NASDAQ-NDX/ - I don't want <localizedsubdomain>.tradingview.com/symbols/NASDAQ-NDX/

With DDG, I just go to duck.com and I am good to go.

So if anyone from Google reads this - this is the reason you lost me.