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TechRights have a tendency to overstate their case and this hit piece is a good example.
"DDG's founder (Gabriel Weinberg) has a history of privacy abuse, starting with his founding of Names DB, a surveillance capitalist service designed to coerce naive users to submit sensitive information about their friends."
Translation; Weinberg was part of a startup that set up a bog standard, early noughties social networking site.
I stopped reading at this point.