Sounds like a plan, but I'd appreciate if you could consider optional subscription plans in return for no tracking and no advertisement scumbag companies collecting my data. I'd gladly pay a few bucks for this and I know other people would too, Kagi is a good example.

I fully believe you have only the best intentions, but unfortunately advertisement companies don't. Simply allowing them to put ads there directly leads to your users being tracked, even across websites. DDG does not have a clean slate either, Microsoft is actively tracking through ads.