searching for the root cause of repeated signing in hassles, I have a "fix". DuckDuckGo has been my browser of choice since it hatched years ago. For about the past year there appears to be either intentional or bug-corrupted security barriers that prompt constant sign-ins which take the form of three-step confirmation. Maybe I'm imagining why DDG has gotten this cumbersome, and if I'm totally wrong I'm sure someone here will jump to say so. I just decommissioned everything that DDG could access or influence and then I removed it entirely from this device. All the annoying issues it created are gone. Will be keeping an eye open for any tracking or hacking intrusions that DDG always proudly prevented. If I start posting backwards in Mandarin or Cyrillic alphabets, you'll be the first to know.