

This was the major problem with the Mac version too. Esc is such a necessary button and they put it behind a bunch of ridiculous other stuff, like if you open the volume slider, now you have to press off of it and then hit esc, so esc is now two button presses.
If you care about utmost privacy, you probably want to use Kagi, then generate privacy tokens and move them to a different computer and search from there. It’s pretty much guaranteed privacy. https://help.kagi.com/kagi/privacy/privacy-pass.html
Kagi is also just the best search engine around at this point, at least that I’ve found. Worth paying for privacy in my opinion.