These numbers exclude Ecosia, Brave, Qwant and all the other search engines that have seen a surge in sign-ups over the last few days.
You are also seeing people take the opportunity to switch browsers. Vivaldi specifically has reported substantial growth recently.
Article talking about DuckDuckGo: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/26/duckduckgo-installs-are-up-30-as-users-reject-being-force-fed-googles-ai-search/
A website to help you start your own journey: https://purchasewithpurpose.io/
Keep it up and spread the word. No better time to make an impact.
I still use Firefox, but i made the switch to duckduckgo a few years ago and stopped using google. I also work on people’s PC’s and have always setup my defaults on them so they also now use duckduckgo instead of google. It may be small, but at least i feel like i am doing my part. I am also working on having our company set its default to ddg as well which would change about 4k over. They are to big and gotta go…