It Seems DuckDuckGo Isn't Quite What You May Have Thought

I have used DuckDuckGo many times as an alternative to Google. So I was surprised to read a review of it today which claimed it's not as "pure" as I thought.

I can't send you directly to what I read, as it is in a private group, but I will give you the main points. One of the things that DuckDuckGo says about itself, and one of the resasons I've used it, is that right on its homepage it says, "We don't store your personal info. We don't follow you around with ads. We don't track you. Ever."
But evidently it depends. Basically, DuckDuckGo gets its data from over 400 places online, and it states it doesn't get data from Google. BUT if you go to the DDG help pages and read the sources page, it does say its information comes "most commonly from Bing."

Well, Bing means Microsoft, and Microsoft used to be run by Bill Gates, as you may well know.

DuckDuckGo’s CEO said in a tweet:

For non-search tracker blocking (eg in our browser), we block most third-party trackers. Unfortunately our Microsoft search syndication agreement prevents us from doing more to Microsoft-owned properties.

So if you click on an ad that Microsoft has provided in DDG's search results, MS may get your IP address and maybe more.

So it's not exactly what I thought.

Well, hey, I'm old enough (see my gray hair!) to know that lots of things are not exactly what I thought.

What do you think of this? I don't feel righteous indignation myself.