DuckDuckGo under fire for letting through Microsoft-scripts by its browser.
It has come to an agreement with Microsoft not to block Microoft on third-paty-websites.
Particular scripts exist that you can add to Tampermonkey extension to again block these.
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DuckDuckGo browser allows Microsoft trackers due to search agreement
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/duckduckgo-browser-allows-microsoft-trackers-due-to-search-agreement/
This is a strange turn of events for DuckDuckGo.
Whilst I don't use the DuckDuckGo browser, the reason I find this interesting is, it isn't all that long ago that I stopped using the DuckDuckGo browser add-on and also dropped the DuckDuckGo search option in Firefox. The main reason for that is that the DuckDuckGo add-on was too intrusive and I felt it broke some sites.
DuckDuckGo I had also somehow became my default search engine on a couple of times in Firefox and I hadn't changed that at all and I changed it back to me default search engine. The worst part was the results on DuckDuckGo searches returned a patheticly small amount of hits in the search (useless would be a good word to use).
All in all for me it has gone downhill very rapidly.