One of the best and least known features of duckduckgo are "bangs". If you precede your search with an "!" followed by "g" (!g _____) duckduckgo will return search results from google, without the tracking that google does. "!a" returns amazon results w/out tracking. There are bangs for over 9,000 sites so far. I still have gmail and fb accounts, but since I've started using duckduckgo and those bang prefixes, I've seen a big drop in the targeted ads I used to receive as a result of my search history.
This relates to the debate I never have with a brother who works in Web Analytics. He is 100% pro-Facebook, pro-advertising, pro-advertising-metrics, etc.
Has the Internet improved since 1997 ?
If you think the answer is yes, let me stuff another ad in your face.
roast mallard or wood duck with dressing & gravy... i miss using lead pellets though. biting into the shot mandated for migratory birds these days can cost you hundreds (if not thousands!) of dollars at a dentist office. WAY too hard...