Same experience here. Unfortunately I try to avoid using government sponsored (aka controlled) “free” services and unfortunately Bing, Google and Yandex are exactly that. But I end up with DDG anyway.

It feels like privacyguides.org is somehow owned/heavily sponsored by proton.

Thanks @warmaster!

Mozilla failed to build a new browser from scratch. How did they manage that?

Are you suggesting that the global reliance on Microsoft by every government could potentially pose an issue?

Iirc all modern iPhones have two sims - one eSIM and one physical.