Multiple Service Providers Are Blocking DuckDuckGo In India (thenextweb.com) 21
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Next Web: Just a few days after India banned 59 Chinese apps, many users in the country are reporting that privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo is inaccessible to them. Users on Reddit have noticed they're unable to access the site on their Airtel and Reliance Jio mobile network connections. While Some users on Twitter have further suggested multiple internet service providers (ISP) have blocked the site. There's no clarity at the moment if there's an order from India's telecom authority to block the site. Meanwhile, DuckDuckGo confirmed on Twitter that it's looking into the issue and suggested Android users change their DNS provider to get around the issue. It also added that there's no issue on the server-side.
State competition (Score:4, Insightful)
Got to close that oppression gap.
Shoulda Coulda T (Score:1)
We should threaten tariffs if they play those games with US companies. This is the kind of thing Trump should be focusing on, not historical statues and lab conspiracies. He could have been a popular populist if he focused on these kinds of things instead of domestic culture wars, race (mis) relations, & conspiracy.
It's like they gave a great populist plan to the wrong guy. Things like H1B abuses and other countries screwing with US companies are relatively popular causes in the US. He had it in the bag
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The soybean tariffs are already costing US taxpayers $16 billion per year. This is keeping the farmers solvent.
The H1B guys would stop arriving tomorrow if it no longer suited the corporations that profit from lower wage bills, so Trump has no say there, and doesn't care anyway.
Not just India (Score:5, Insightful)
For a time, roughly two weeks, DDG was blocked at our work (a multi-thousand person operation). I submitted a ticket to our networking team complete with all information. They came back and said our provider was blocking them because they were a malicious site. No really, that's what was said.
About two weeks later they were finally unblocked. Needless to say, when I submitted the ticket someone came back and asked, "Can't you use something else?" If that wasn't a blatant nod to use Google.
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If that wasn't a blatant nod to use Google.
My God, they've gotten to you too. Who up and Googles nudes and such when you could go and Bing them instead?
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Re:I don't trust DuckDuckGo (Score:4, Funny)
No they don't rip off google results, they wouldn't be so abysmal at search if they did.
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I started using DDG 2 weeks ago. I've had to use google 5 times since then. Google seems to understand what I'm trying to ask for, whereas DDG seems to just associate words. However, DDG isn't bad at all.
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So Google is starting to feel the pinch huh and has launched a corporate PR slander program. DuckDuckgo is orders or magnitude better than Google, https://duckduckgo.com/ [duckduckgo.com]. I had started to smell it a couple of weeks back and the odour is definitely getting stronger. The kind of subtle psychological shite that only a oversize pack of anal retentive privacy invasive ass hats like the googlites could run.
Yes, a subconsciously targeted PR attack program seems to be running out of Google targeting DuckDuckgo, w
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My experience with DDG is exactly opposite to yours. Every time I try it, it completely fails to find what I'm looking for. What I want isn't in several pages of results. Then I give up and go to Google and it's in the first page, maybe the second. I'm glad it's working for you but it's worthless to me.
Why not direct IP access vice DNS (Score:1)
NOT True (Score:2)
Re:NOT True (Score:4, Informative)
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Nope, able to access DuckDuckGo on Airtel. No issues.
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