Thank you DDG, I highly recommend.

On Mac OS sonoma, if you sign up the mail protection, it literally freezes firefox making it run with 100% CPU usage.

Automatically changes your browsers default search engine to DuckDuckGo. Not a huge issue, but don't do that. Cannot stress enough how much I do NOT want that to happen. Ask next time.

DDG is worse than Google for erratic & useless results, plus its transparently trying to throw ads at us. Waste of effort.