Even more strange is that when I type “PeerTube”, some suggestions appear, but searching any of them will end up back on the “no results found” page.
The suggestions:
Searching one of them:
It has been a few weeks since I first encountered this issue. I’ve tried again and again, but it never worked.
I just tried it with a VPN and it worked. Turning it off and refreshing the resulted in no results again.
But I can open https://joinpeertube.org/ without a VPN. This confuses me.
DuckDuckGo clearly censors results based on IP.
Duck has always felt like a shittier more cencored version of bing to me. I have no idea how people stand it.
What would you recommend instead?
Honestly? Google. They also censor stuff, but …
nah, gonna refuse that one. don’t want to give google a cent if i can help it
See if bing does the same. DuckDuckGo mobile kinda sucks
It does!
So it’s probably because DDG uses bing.
Yeah then it’s a location thing for your area.
You could be dealing with a Spyware poisoning your search engine results or it’s done on a large scale deep packet inspection on the networks you’re using.
In the meantime I recommend Searx, it’s an open-source metasearch engine.
Just to be clear Duckduckgo isn’t at fault & always uses a VPN it’s the least you can do to protect yourself online (If there are financial struggles ProtonVPN is a free & open source reliable alternative.).
I had tried SearX. It was good until I tried searching in my own language… Guess I’ll have to use SearX for my English searches and DDG when it fails. Thank you for the info.