It has certainly got some mainstream attention recently:

https://twitter.com/jack/status/1199783221162053633?lang=en

https://www.businessinsider.my/twitter-jack-dorsey-duckduckg...

Might be now? I just swapped my default search to DuckDuckGo.

I have been having several issues with google search recently, this just seems like a good time to make the jump.

Yeah for a long while I felt like an idiosyncratic person for using it and it did feel like a minor sacrifice. Nowadays it really does seem like a competitive platform on quality. Slightly less good at parsing the semantics, but much better at actually showing me search results instead of ads.

I switched yesterday. I love it does not try to guess what i search for

I use duckduck go on mobile because it doesn't prevent me from saving images.

Why not just use Bing then? Why drink the same wine from different bottle?

It slowly moves a little bit more each day.

Not useful results will change habits.