Link to the Lemmy post in question: https://lemmy.one/post/657560

Ultimately, it seems like the post doesn’t provide adequate evidence to prove its claims about DDG.

It does and vice-versa. I mainly use Kbin but this comment is from Lemmy (specifically Beehaw.org)

Proton Mail is a good provider. I also like Thunderbird as an email client

I get that video hosting is expensive, but I’m not sitting through the number of ads that YT wants me to.

There will be other workarounds. If those fail, then I’ll just stop watching. The platform has gotten worse over the years anyway.