I don't know, no matter how virtuous they start off, it feels like all my premium services, plus browsers, search engines etc. succumb to being turned into floozies. Because I switched, I suspect DuckDuckGo will be the next to go followed by Life Alert et al, money talks, bullsheet walks when it comes to internet virtuosity towards us ratbag consumers.
I don't have the answer.
Sadly, I agree with you about DDG. I also have been using zonelab free for years, but each upgrade it moves away from free and who knows what zonelab may be paid to allow. It sucks.
I may go back to text only bulletin boards and Zork dos games.
I have no answers either.