skribe

I think your number is probably too low. As a test, use noscript to block all the google assets and see how many sites you can still use. Not many.

Commodore going bankrupt.

Chargeback time.

Last time I checked the documentation (more than a year ago) the ‘-’ flag was supposed to work, but in practice the results can be unpredictable. Google honours the flag, but DDG is a bit of a mixed bag.

My chief complaint about DDG is excluding a term from a query rarely works. The “-” tag is not reliable.