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I wish DDG would have a toggle for the privacy/speed/other attributes of the destination site. I'd like to set minimums and simply never see those sites in my results.

This would require allowlists and easy disabling for targeted searches but would generally stay enabled.

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How could they have any knowledge of the privacy settings of the target site?

If they crawled the sites themselves, then they could detect tracking code and allow users to filter out sites with that (filter by no ads, no analytics, no paywall, etc.) However, since they mostly just use Bing I don't know how easy that would be.