Its so anoying and show up constantly even if you close it, that I had to use uBlock Origin to remove it.
Dark patterns seem to always happen no matter who you are or claim to be.
Damn Eternal Semptember...
start.ddg can be used with browser settings, which is nice. I switched to it.
It's a shame, DDG are otherwise so user friendly.
However, it looks like you do miss out some features that way.
Most notably, you can't use search shortcut in Firefox/Chrome as it does POST instead of GET
Also bangs do not work
They’re useful more as a way to divert tax revenue from California to PA, my home state, which has been run roughshod by anti tax ex tech bros for too long, than as a suite of products in the way MS or Google offers.
(I keep having to fall back to Bing for some types queries they’re better at slapping together a bunch of existing things than creating their own algorithms, spidering etc… but the bang commands are useful and a lot of IAs allow you to do an opaque query over HTTPS like calculate a sha256 hash that some users lacking terminal access might not be able to do locally.
I'd say it louder if I could