Some employee mentioning this on Twitter is not an announcement. That would be a press release, a blog post or at least a tweet from their official corporate account.
I use DDG too but I wish they wouldn't use bing as a backend.
I use DDG too but I wish they wouldn't use bing as a backend.
That said, this has been going on a while, and it seems more likely that DDG was fine with keeping it secret and the employee was probably acting independently.
I think the fact the DDG signed the confidentiality agreement willingly does not speak well of their overall priorities.
agree that official announcement would be better though