I think the main motivation for a search company to go and build an email servic...

		joemi on Jan 15, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps I think the main motivation for a search company to go and build an email service (or an entire Google Apps competitor) would be the same reason Google did it... to mine user data. So to that end I don't think it really makes sense for DDG to do such a thing.

I think they did it because existing alternatives were terrible