Even this works for me. Must be a US problem. Regardless, I fail to see how your first hop onto the Internet would affect DDG, and no-one else and therefore be

Even this works for me. Must be a US problem. Regardless, I fail to see how your first hop onto the Internet would affect DDG, and no-one else and therefore be a DDG problem. Your carrier must be mangling the data somehow. How does this equate to DDG saying that they're blocking Tor users?