Aussie in Leopolis.
Writer. One of my novels: Coils of the Serpent. Read it for free.
It’s not an option. It doesn’t work on all our phones.
I use it for our family chat. It’s okay. The biggest issue is sometimes messages are delayed (up to half-an-hour at times). Other than that, it’s fine. It meets our needs.
The jobseeker program is just like the weight-loss industry. They do just enough to appear to be doing something, but not enough to actually fix the problem. If they did succeed, they’d be out of a job.
I’ve been saying this for the last year.
Last time I checked the documentation (more than a year ago) the ‘-’ flag was supposed to work, but in practice the results can be unpredictable. Google honours the flag, but DDG is a bit of a mixed bag.
My chief complaint about DDG is excluding a term from a query rarely works. The “-” tag is not reliable.
I think your number is probably too low. As a test, use noscript to block all the google assets and see how many sites you can still use. Not many.