Nobody else has mentioned this but there have been several times that Bing censored something and it propagated to DDG, most notably when Microsoft censored Tank Man (intended for China, probably) but then Tank Man also was censored on DDG.
Partly because of these incidents, I could never consider DDG reliable.
Looking over their Wikipedia page, DDG looks like they're reasonably independent.
Why is everyone saying they're just Bing?
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