DuckDuckGo coming back online in India following country-wide block

Re:DuckDuckGo coming back online in India following country-... by chopraaa on Sunday July 05, 2020 @03:56PM (#23741426)

DDG was blocked for the past several days. The issue came up on /r/duckduckgo and /r/india, following which the Internet Freedom Foundation wrote to the Department of Telecom [1]

DDG is working for me again (it's my default search engine) so that's a relief. In the past, the government or the ISPs in India have nonchalantly blocked several websites and even NSFW sub-reddits. The IFF even has a dump of blocking orders issued by courts leaked by a whistleblower. [2]

[1] https://internetfreedom.in/blocking-of-duckduckgo-needs-to-b...

[2] https://internetfreedom.in/whistleblower-provides-website-bl...

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Re:DuckDuckGo coming back online in India following country-... by econcon on Sunday July 05, 2020 @11:17PM (#23744362)

Those who are tired of government blocking, make a $5 droplet in Germany or Netherlands and set wireguard.

When I was in India, I was getting much better speed on vpn compared to direct connection. How can this be possible? Page loads appeared significantly faster through digital ocean server.

I was under impression, VPN adds overhead and reduces speed?.

I often do market research and blocking gets in way, I can decide what website is good for me what isn't. Government shouldn't have any say in that.

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Re:DuckDuckGo coming back online in India following country-... by kdrag0n on Monday July 06, 2020 @02:38AM (#23745287)

I've heard that many ISPs in India have bad routing, which probably explains what you experienced. That's why services with local servers in India (e.g. Cloudflare WARP+) can have the same effect.

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Re:DuckDuckGo coming back online in India following country-... by saagarjha on Sunday July 05, 2020 @04:55PM (#23741895)

I'm fairly annoyed that the list of websites blocked is not made available. Also, how do you block a specific subreddit!?

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Re:DuckDuckGo coming back online in India following country-... by yantrams on Sunday July 05, 2020 @05:22PM (#23742136)

This sheet is being regularly updated I believe. Has entries from even the justice-for-sikhs websites that were banned few hours ago.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17VJKBTBnHDpLTXOrB58L...

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Re:DuckDuckGo coming back online in India following country-... by _tw9j on Sunday July 05, 2020 @05:29PM (#23742204)

By making request to reddit.

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