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DuckDuckGo has been reintroduced in India since 1 July.
DuckDuckGo privacy-oriented search engine has been restored in India since it was inaccessible to many users since 1 July, Android Police said. There are different reports of what caused the outage. Some users reported that the Indian government appeared behind the block, while others reported that they got what appeared to be DNS search errors, according to Android police.
The service seemed to be restored by Saturday morning in India, DuckDuckGo tweeted.
In the meantime it appears switching to a third-party DNS provider fixes the issue, e.g. the more private 1.1.1.1.
— DuckDuckGo (@DuckDuckGo) July 1, 2020
Here’s how to set it up on Android: https://t.co/CeNuiZiHKw
On 29 June, the Indian Ministry of Electronics and IT prohibited more than 50 China-based apps, among others, TikTok and WeChat. Prejudicing India's sovereignty and integrity, "the press release says.
Whether DuckDuckGo from Pennsylvania was inadvertently blocked in this greater effort, or whether there was another reason for the failure, is not clear. It is clear. DuckDuckGo was not on the 29th list of prohibited applications of the Indian Government on June 29th.
The spokesperson of DuckDuckGo stated in an e-mail to The Verge, "we contacted the Indian government, but have not yet received an answer.
We are puzzled by why the Indian government is telling Indian ISPs to block DuckDuckGo, but hope this is resolved soon.
