This seems nice in theory but reaches the wrong audience.
Since a couple months ago DDG decided to block TOR Browser users, so I would guess that most people that were concerned about their privacy already moved on to the competition.
Though it's nice to see better support for 2G slow networks, even when it's not for the sake of privacy as they claim.
"Since a couple months ago DDG decided to block TOR Browser users,"
Do you have a source for that claim? A quick search returned nothing.
Edit: I downloaded the (latest version of Tor Browser)-1 (10.0.12) and DDG is on the start page as the default search. No problems searching for things either.
Try using a mobile carrier and TOR on Android. You'll always get (and I quote) this:
"We've detected that you have connected over Tor. There appears to be an issue with the Tor Exit Node you are currently using. Please recreate your Tor circuit or restart your Tor browser in order to fix this. If this error persists, please let us know: error-lite-tor@duckduckgo.com"
And no, rotating the exit node or changing the identity won't help either.
Even this works for me. Must be a US problem. Regardless, I fail to see how your first hop onto the Internet would affect DDG, and no-one else and therefore be a DDG problem. Your carrier must be mangling the data somehow.
How does this equate to DDG saying that they're blocking Tor users?
> Since a couple months ago DDG decided to block TOR Browser users, so I would guess that most people that were concerned about their privacy already moved on to the competition.
I've used the clearnet DDG site for months over Tor and the only problem I've experienced is that sometimes DDG decides that my exit node isn't acceptable for some reason. This is very rare though (happens about once per month) and the error message makes it very clear that I should just use another exit node (unlike many other sites where I get cryptic error messages or a Google captcha).
Plus as others mentioned, there's an onion service which works as well.
Since a couple months ago DDG decided to block TOR Browser users, so I would guess that most people that were concerned about their privacy already moved on to the competition.
Though it's nice to see better support for 2G slow networks, even when it's not for the sake of privacy as they claim.