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.

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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.

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DuckDuckGo clearly censors results based on IP.

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Duck has always felt like a shittier more cencored version of bing to me. I have no idea how people stand it.

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What would you recommend instead?

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Honestly? Google. They also censor stuff, but …

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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.

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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.

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See if bing does the same. DuckDuckGo mobile kinda sucks

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It does! So it’s probably because DDG uses bing.

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Yeah then it’s a location thing for your area.

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