Why?Duck duck go is useless with search though. Well I find it useless.
Google just serves up shopping ads. It's awful these daysGoogle serves up what they think I need when I search while duck duck go is not filtered so the result I want is never near the top. It takes several rewords and effort to get the information I need from duck duck go. I can't be bothered. Just give me the information I need.
I guess others are more aware of search engine profiling and tracking but I'm not bothered.
I've stopped using a VPN as well.
You can use 'duckduckgo' browser, this will suppress all the annoying ads and cookie GDPR stuff.