It seems as though it was more a part of the Bing deal. In that MS said you can have Bing if you allow Bing and LinkedIn trackers. DDG were then able to negotiate a subsequent agreement that now blocks those trackers.
The failure to disclose the original MS tracker deal is slightly concerning but personally when I use DDG and just clear everything each session anyway and for the most part use Firefox with extensions for anything needing logins.
In my experience DDG breaks less sites than FF.
No, that’s a misconception. See news story here.
Really? Anything in particular about ColorOS you disliked? I’m on my 3rd Oppo and don’t mind it but also not very picky.
Unsure why DDG isn’t mentioned but they work well for me across devices.
I’ll get downvoted into the ground, but right now, Brave with shields up + privacy badger is the only browser I can run with javascript enabled that does a half decent job at anonymizing my fingerprint, verifiable by https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/
DuckDuckGo does this out of the box.
Safari + Privacy Badger too (I use Safari as my work related browser).
But if Brave works for you then that’s cool.
Miyoo/Anbernic present a much better option.