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Tell HN: (weirdly, it works now) DuckDuckGo is blocked by Indian govt

22 points by thewhitetulip 4y ago

Starting a few hours ago I can no longer acces duckduckgo. It says "Your requested URL has been blocked as per the directions received from the Department of Telecommunications, Government of India" Edit: Freakishly it has started working now.. I was using Idea network and it didn't work for quite some time

jayanmn 4y ago
Which provider..? Tested with airtel and act. Works fine..
- thewhitetulip 4y ago
  It wasn't working on Idea 10min before this post
taxman22 4y ago
Similar situation happened in July 2020 https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/4/21313393/duckduckgo-india-privacy-apps-banned https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/4/21313393/duckduckgo-india-...
pseudostem 4y ago
Works for me, both on cellular and on home broadband. Would be good if you confirmed with your ISP first.
Garbage 4y ago
Which ISP are you using? I can confirm I am able to access DuckDuckGo on Airtel. No issues at all.
- thewhitetulip 4y ago
  I'm using vi
est 4y ago
Can you paste curl -svk https://duckduckgo.com/ https://duckduckgo.com/ ? Checking with browsers are not reliable.
lithiumhead 4y ago
Working on hathway
22SAS 4y ago
Stuff like this makes me happy that I don't live there anymore and never won't :)
surds 4y ago
Can access on Jio fiber
currydove 4y ago
Yep, in India and on Jio where it's working for fine for me.... For now.
msravi 4y ago
I'm on ACT in Bangalore, and I can very much access DuckDuckGo Edit: I can also access using Airtel mobile
Brajeshwar 4y ago
Works for me. Here is my setup if the info helps. Three ISPs bonded/balanced - Act, Airtel, Jio. Goes through AdGuad DNS + Apple Private Relay turned ON with "Maintain General Location." Note: I had never used the ISPs DNS since OpenDNS days. So, OpenDNS, Google, CloudFlare, NextDNS, AdGuard.
gjsman-1000 4y ago
A reminder that this all nearly happened in the US with SOPA and PIPA, which would have brought internet censorship to the United States, ostensibly for stopping the sharing of copyrighted material (at least, to start with). The internet banded together on that, and Congress hasn’t dared strengthen copyright laws since in over a decade of fallout. I think it’s a shame we can do it again for Right to Repair and DMCA 1201 repeal, but it’s odd to look back and know how close it could have happened here, and how it still could if we lose vigilance.
vbcr 4y ago
Working for me. Pioneer broadband. Hyd.
dolores_tyrion 4y ago
i'm using govt owned railwire fiber connection (this is the only fiber available in my village) and its working, to be fair lot of things that don't work on jio seems to work on railwire, like DNS route for some torrent sites, seems the private orgs had resources to implement new restrictions but railwire seems to lack it, (have vpn for security i occasionally check things without vpn)
sidcool 4y ago
Working for me

22 points by thewhitetulip 4y ago

jayanmn 4y ago

Which provider..? Tested with airtel and act. Works fine..

thewhitetulip 4y ago
It wasn't working on Idea 10min before this post

taxman22 4y ago

Similar situation happened in July 2020 https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/4/21313393/duckduckgo-india-privacy-apps-banned https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/4/21313393/duckduckgo-india-...

pseudostem 4y ago

Works for me, both on cellular and on home broadband. Would be good if you confirmed with your ISP first.

Garbage 4y ago

Which ISP are you using? I can confirm I am able to access DuckDuckGo on Airtel. No issues at all.

thewhitetulip 4y ago
I'm using vi

est 4y ago

Can you paste curl -svk https://duckduckgo.com/ https://duckduckgo.com/ ? Checking with browsers are not reliable.

lithiumhead 4y ago

Working on hathway

22SAS 4y ago

Stuff like this makes me happy that I don't live there anymore and never won't :)

surds 4y ago

Can access on Jio fiber

currydove 4y ago

Yep, in India and on Jio where it's working for fine for me.... For now.

msravi 4y ago

I'm on ACT in Bangalore, and I can very much access DuckDuckGo Edit: I can also access using Airtel mobile

Brajeshwar 4y ago

Works for me. Here is my setup if the info helps. Three ISPs bonded/balanced - Act, Airtel, Jio. Goes through AdGuad DNS + Apple Private Relay turned ON with "Maintain General Location." Note: I had never used the ISPs DNS since OpenDNS days. So, OpenDNS, Google, CloudFlare, NextDNS, AdGuard.

gjsman-1000 4y ago

A reminder that this all nearly happened in the US with SOPA and PIPA, which would have brought internet censorship to the United States, ostensibly for stopping the sharing of copyrighted material (at least, to start with). The internet banded together on that, and Congress hasn’t dared strengthen copyright laws since in over a decade of fallout. I think it’s a shame we can do it again for Right to Repair and DMCA 1201 repeal, but it’s odd to look back and know how close it could have happened here, and how it still could if we lose vigilance.

vbcr 4y ago

Working for me. Pioneer broadband. Hyd.

dolores_tyrion 4y ago

i'm using govt owned railwire fiber connection (this is the only fiber available in my village) and its working, to be fair lot of things that don't work on jio seems to work on railwire, like DNS route for some torrent sites, seems the private orgs had resources to implement new restrictions but railwire seems to lack it, (have vpn for security i occasionally check things without vpn)

sidcool 4y ago

Working for me