Just call it a proxy though, as that’s all it is. And end of the day, using better models with a VPN gives the same privacy and better performance. This is pointless beyond attempting to stop the bleeding from imploding search traffic.

DDG has made very poor technical and business decisions and they are trying to hold on but can’t escape the fact they are just a Bing wrapper. And Bing, like Google, is increasingly an index of AI spam.

Web search - from any company - is rapidly approaching full-on utility collapse.

Pushing half-truths about second and third tier LLM models being “private” will not stop the bleeding.