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This. Clean, reliable and functional. Although I’ve never wrapped my head around how they make their $$
They place ads in the search results.
If you disable your ad blocker, the first search result will almost always an Amazon ad. I test searched for "Headphones" and it also shows a row of JBL headphones at the top ala google shopping, which is an ad as well.
Really, they make their money the same way as google, they just don't track your searches and site visits.
They still run ads, just less profitable ones since they're less intrusive, aren't personalised, and most never see them anyway because if youre on DDG in the first place, you're also likely to be using adblock.