Some people do. I do. On places with vocal minority (or in general sometimes) like HN, reddit, Twitter, you’ll see many more people tout the trendy/cool DDG. As you said Bing/Microsoft aren’t cool.

I’m talking about the majority of these people who outside of basic ad/tracker blocking and using DDG, don’t stick to caring about privacy above most other things.

A lot of what I’m saying doesn’t count for HN’s crowd as much as other bigger sites.

I don’t have any backing for this statement. Just what i believe from common sense looking around.