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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 Departm

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-be-reversed-we-wrote-to-the-government-whattheduck/ https://internetfreedom.in/blocking-of-duckduckgo-needs-to-b... [2] https://internetfreedom.in/whistleblower-provides-website-blocking-orders-on-4000-websites/ https://internetfreedom.in/whistleblower-provides-website-bl...

saagarjha 6y ago
I'm fairly annoyed that the list of websites blocked is not made available. Also, how do you block a specific subreddit!?
- yantrams 6y ago
  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/17VJKBTBnHDpLTXOrB58L7PHbdpPvK0C_hxeIL16QWV4/edit#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17VJKBTBnHDpLTXOrB58L...
- _tw9j 6y ago
  By making request to reddit.
econcon 6y ago
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.
- kdrag0n 6y ago
  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.

saagarjha 6y ago

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

yantrams 6y ago
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/17VJKBTBnHDpLTXOrB58L7PHbdpPvK0C_hxeIL16QWV4/edit#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17VJKBTBnHDpLTXOrB58L...
_tw9j 6y ago
By making request to reddit.

econcon 6y ago

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.

kdrag0n 6y ago
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.