I use Qwant as my default search engine because I thought it was more respectful of my privacy than Google or Bing and DuckDuckGo is not giving so good results in my country (for localization related searches).
I noticed that the engine was removed from the default engines for URL bar in latest IronFox version. So I searched a bit about why so, and found this issue in their tracker : https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox/-/issues/47.
What to think about this ? The message from ironfox dev seems clear but qwant seems to claim that the shared data are anonymized.
Does DuckDuckGo do this as well or is that a better option, privacy-wise?
EDIT: answer is here: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/search-engines/#recommended-providers
If you need to hide IP, you just use a VPN. Duh!
And Qwant is not listed on privacyguides?