Both those switches were removed between iPhone 12 and 13 models. Which is sad, because they’d go a long way to avoid the issues described in the article.
It seems that not all iPhones do have this setting available. Not sure if this is related with the availability of RAW images, which is only supported on iPhone 14 Pro.
I may have missed something and had the impression that this was a "new" feature for iPhone 14 Pro only. But as the linked support documents mention, it is available on iPhone 12 Pro and later Pro models since iOS 14.3.
Stop thinking random american services will solve your problem
That is not how internet works
Work on hidding/spoofing your identity, and use what everyone uses, you better hidden if you are one of the billions of users than one of the thousands
"Of course, we have more traditional links and images in our search results too, which we largely source from Bing."
https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources