[thundermuffin]

Ahhh, gotcha!

So if I'm understanding correctly, you'd be fine with DDG's update if it was just the icon being added to the field (making an assumption here that the icon is how you activate the feature like a password manager), but by adding the ad/onboarding/whatever popup they went too far.

That's a fair criticism! At first, I was taking your stance as it was a terrible wrong that they added another privacy feature in general.