It’s not a blind trust system with searxng. They have an integrity check in order to be added to the list. This is relative to the searxng GitHub repository which is fully open.
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This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
You can just right click on the url bar to add search engines to firefox, I did that for the nixos package repository and youtube.
As for duck duck go, you can try searxng instances though you are putting your trust in some random admins in that case.
It’s not a blind trust system with searxng. They have an integrity check in order to be added to the list. This is relative to the searxng GitHub repository which is fully open.
https://searx.space/