Originally Posted By: kevs
Artie, "but I avoid the data collection issue by NEVER logging in. grin"

I'm logged in because they it sync my bookmarks between desktop/ laptop. Critical-and iphone and ipad as well, all 4.

Can Duck do that? And Duck uses it's own engine? Which I'm sure not a good.. gotta give google credit, has best results. Though I agree, "don't be evil" even they decided to discard that motto.
DuckDuckGo uses its own search engine and does not rank links based on what they are paid by the site or vendor, sell the search data to advertisers, or clutter the found links with paid advertising. And Google can identify your computer without your having to log on. The only way to prevent that is to use a secure browser such as TOR with security set to maximum (which makes many web sites unusable 😠).

I never log into Google or DuckDuckGo and all of my bookmarks, passwords, clipboard, etc are synched on my Macs, iPhone, & iPad through iCloud.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?

— Albert Einstein