>> * switch default search engine to DuckDuckGo (one can still use the !s bang when one wants to see what Google has)
I switched to Bing Search last year to earn Microsoft rewards, and I was surprised to find that I only need to go to Google for supplementary searches less than 10% of the time. I thought switching to Bing was going to be much worse.
I was on Bing for rewards for a time, but became uncomfortable with their decision to allow ad targeting based on LinkedIn profiles with no option to opt out. DDG user now.
I switched to Bing Search last year to earn Microsoft rewards, and I was surprised to find that I only need to go to Google for supplementary searches less than 10% of the time. I thought switching to Bing was going to be much worse.