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I didn't downvote, but probably because they're a young USA-based search engine that requires login to use - which is usually a huge red flag for privacy, and their privacy of user searches is claimed but has never been verified by any kind of audit - another significant red flag.
Why trust another for-profit Palo-Alto search company with your search data, assist their (potential) tracking by logging in, and pay for it in the process?
Wouldn't using their Privacy Pass solve this?
So, wait.. pay for search, which we need you logged in for and 'we swear is private bro, honest - but oh hey, if you want a search that's definitely actually private and we promise it (harder)', pay them more for a Professional/Ultimate/Team plan to unlock Privacy Pass access .. that is uhh, a fresh red flag.
Further, you can't access Privacy Pass (PP) searches via their standard search engine page.. you can only access it by installing and using their closed source browser, or their closed source Android app, or their closed source browser extension.. So again its just 'trust me bro' but you're paying them more, and each of the technologies they require you use to access the Privacy Pass can theoretically track all of your data in far more detail than a search engine alone? Mate, from my perspective it's privacy red flags all the way down.
I mean I get it, how do you have a premium search engine that your users pay for to avoid ads, while also identifying that they've paid, while guaranteeing their anonymity/privacy? That's a tricky thing to solve, but the way they've opted to solve is arguably even more suspicious. Open source client code (at least) to validate the server service could not be using the PP tokens to link to a specific user would be a right way.