So turns out they purely did this for virtue signaling reasons because they get all their search results from Bing which said they were going to block results too.
https://archive.ph/F5uQh
DuckDuckGo has little control over its search results because they are provided by Microsoft’s Bing, which announced that it would follow the European Union’s order to restrict access to the Russian state news agencies RT and Sputnik.
All they had to say was "we won't be showing Russian results because Bing won't be showing Russian results" but hey... that would point out they're not really a search engine company and why not get some "good boy" points for acting all virtuous.
So turns out they purely did this for virtue signaling reasons because they get all their search results from Bing which said they were going to block results too. https://archive.ph/F5uQh
All they had to say was "we won't be showing Russian results because Bing won't be showing Russian results" but hey... that would point out they're not really a search engine company and why not get some "good boy" points for acting all virtuous.
They did cut ties with Yandex, though.
Why use DDG if theyre literally just a secondhand bing?