Looking that up

While using a connected computer or tablet, I often get a notion to look something up.  I realize that foreign agents may be spending their time noting the subject of my computer inquiries, perusing their notes and searching for a pattern that reveals secret and valuable aspects of me.  The realization leads me to use the Firefox browser and not one of the more popular ones.  But when I am consciously looking for information, most of the time, I divert my search over to Duckduckgo.

I haven't read or otherwise collected evidence that Firefox and Duckduckgo are importantly safer or more secure but so far, I like the habits I have developed.  It may still be that the most basic software on a Windows or Apple computer is the browser, a program I think of as the car that takes me to various "sites" on the internet.  Of course, many, if not most, computers are used for specific business purposes.  When I was teaching, a spreadsheet was my most used software in recording grades and marks.