I just repeated your experiment: With my ad blocker disabled, I searched for "google chrome" on DDG. I got two ads above the search results; one was for google.com, and the second was for downloadsem.com, which is distributing a Chrome browser that comes with a lot of browser toolbars. I took screen shots. [1]

Of note is that these ads are powered by, and clicks redirect through, Yahoo.

[1]: Screen shots for the curious: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jiooo37trog860d/AAAgmpY9SMxcLyIVI...

You have some type of malware or rogue extension on your device. I would look into that...

That only affects DDG and not Google or Bing? That doesn't seem likely. You sure you're not running an adblocker?

(Also it's rogue, not rouge.)

The one I replied to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11526264 is about Bing and DDG.

Ad for everydownload shows up at the top of ddg for me on Chrome Android. Are you this incredulous, or just trolling?

No, are you trolling? I was hardly the only one on this post who didn't get ads for that search. You are the first person to mention the mobile version of any browser so I did the same search with Chrome on Android using DDG and... Gee, the Google Chrome website is still the first result. The only time I got an ad was with the Canadian version of Bing. Note, I am using the DDG website NOT the app or extension.

I have no malware on this box. Bing gives me 3 ads for Google Chrome. First one is legit, other two are spam (downloadsem.com and downloadbst.com.)

Oops forgot the side ads, I also get an ad from apps-2016.com.

I am searching from Canada.

I get the same results... Wow! I would stop using Bing Canada.