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Full disclosure, been using Duck Duck Go for a while but...
30 to 50 steps? On a Samsung it's one click from the address bar to select a search engine and then another to select Duck, Google, yahoo, or bing.
The way it's worded they're adding steps for like 10 devices together.
And for it to be a single click, all the options would have to display every time you click the address bar, which would make it look like a 90s web browser.
I'm all about Duck, but that reeks of bullshit because they know most politicians don't know as much about the internet as a 9 year old does.
That does seem like an exaggeration, but there is truth in the power of defaults for the mainstream audience.
Pixel phones it's harder:
Change fucking launcher... The google bar is always there, cannot be removed and it's always google.
Pixel owner here. Changed to Nova launcher on day one. No search bar on my home screen and DDG is my default search engine.
I use Firefox and DDG on my Pixel but I do keep a small Google option for those (usually location based} particular searches