The CEO and founder of ddg announced on twitter that they will start moderating content on the Russian invasion of Ukraine [1]. While I agree disinformation is a problem, I want my search engine to treat my like an adult, just do your job of retrieving the information I asked for and let me decide what is mis-information and what is not.

It starts with a cause we all can get behind, sometimes its "think of the children", another time it's regulating information from people supporting orcs, and who knows, how do I know things I care about might get suppressed in the future? Stop the nonsese, let me be the judge of what I consume.

The other instance I remember was the whole ms tracking situation[2], if your whole selling point is "Privacy simplified" then do just that without all the nonsese. There were a few others (#duckduckgone) before I stopped using them.

[1]https://twitter.com/yegg/status/1501716484761997318 [2]https://twitter.com/thezedwards/status/1528808759027331072

Not a controversy, but my gripe with ddg is whatever they do when I click on a result that puts the title and icon of the target page in my history, but when I click on the link in history it takes me to the ddg search results page, not the actual page.