I used DDG for a few years, but now I can't stand it anymore. The search results are so bad. I could scroll to the end of the results and not find a single website I'd trust enough to cite as a reliable source. It's all irrelevant SEO trash.
Also, search syntax doesn't work! I could do the ol' site:reddit trick, but - would never exclude results with a term, "" would never guarantee results with a term, and + sure as hell didn't work either.
I reluctantly switched to Brave. The search results are better, but I don't trust it very much since it started redirecting image searches to Bing or Google. I will likely move to Kagi.