I was using Duck Duck Go exclusively on all of my Macs, but I'm back to Google.
The reason for the change is that Duck Duck Go disabled its tracker blocking in Safari.
I read the explanation from DDG's web site, and it seemed to boil down to something like the new version of Safari would require people to opt-in to DDG's tracker blocking, and since that would be confusing for people, it's gone.
Well, anti-tracking is the whole reason people use DDG, both the search engine, and the privacy plug-in.
>and since that would be confusing for people, it's gone.
Not sure what text you've read, but they've removed the feature because Safari 12 disables the entire extension when it discovers the API calls related to that function.
Furthermore tracker blocking is not part of the search engine and definitely not the reason why people switch to DDG, but the extension only. And it is redundant on browsers that offer it themselves or when other extensions include that function.
The reason for the change is that Duck Duck Go disabled its tracker blocking in Safari.
I read the explanation from DDG's web site, and it seemed to boil down to something like the new version of Safari would require people to opt-in to DDG's tracker blocking, and since that would be confusing for people, it's gone.
Well, anti-tracking is the whole reason people use DDG, both the search engine, and the privacy plug-in.
I hope someone else steps up to the plate.