I could be completely wrong, may the gods of the Internet forgive me.

Yeah I noticed they got very shopping oriented in the last year or so, but I didn’t anticipate this. Yikes.

I thought DDG was some kind of front end for Google search. How wrong am I, and if I’m right, does this mean it’s the Google search in, e.g., Chrome browser that’s doing this? Otherwise how would DDG be avoiding it?