Make DuckDuckGo your Chrome default search engine

...and you trust Chrome? Not even Chromium, but... Chrome. Google makes Chrome, you know.

You don't have to trust it. You can sniff 100% of the traffic coming out of your own computer. You can even configure a firewall to block all traffic to Google's netblocks.

All of which is pointless, since you have already installed their binaries.

Even if you have their binaries they'd have to communicate home to transgress your privacy.

edit: Missed the suggestion to block traffic entirely with a firewall - thought the discussion was only on sniffing traffic. Less ridiculous then :)

You're suggesting people that already stated a distrust in Google do a thorough network traffic analysis after every update, so that they know their privacy is violated after the fact? That's a bit ridiculous, really.

It's pretty simple with something like Little Snitch...