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.
Is Peertube banned iny our country? maybe you’re typing in a URL?
Works for me too
Also remember that DDG is basically a private frontend to bing, just as much as Startpage is a frontend to google.
If bing has any problem with peertube in OP’s country, DDG will have too
Can confirm this. I tried with bing. Same result. That was why it wasn’t working, because of bing. Thanks! I’ll probably to switch to something else now.
so is it actually recommended to use ddg or not, I thought they were the privacy flag bearer
Well, it’s complicated and it really depends on you in the end. I’ll try to explain.
DDG has good results in any language and they donate a lot of money to privacy-related initiatives. That’s great and very few do this, BUT they also depend massively on bing: if bing censors something, you won’t be able too see it in DDG. There have been a couple other controversies but they are pretty minor imo and almost every privacy-oriented company has those.
Brave search is great and has the best independent index among all private search engines, but it’s 100% reliable only for English results and people usually either love or hate brave for its involvement in crypto and a couple of other minor controversies (people love to pick hills to die on)
Then there are meta-engines, who give you the best private results across the board (duh, they look for them on every search engine) but they don’t really contribute to the scene like ddg (or even brave) does.
So yeah. DDG is not a bad choice by any means but everything has caveat. It’s up to you to stay informed about the software you use to make a conscious choice
Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9q3qPxrTqg this is a good overview
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.
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.
well, you posted a screenshot searching not for “peertube” but for “peertube instance”.
nonetheless, both work for me in DDG:
peertube
peertube instances
perhaps it’s blocked by your isp?
Searching “PeerTube” doesn’t return any results. peertube (all lower case) doesn’t return anything either. What’s funny is that “pertube” returns the correct results for “PeerTube”. It seems like it works like this: If the IP requesting the search is from my country and it’s searching PeerTube or peertube it’s going to block the search. But why should it?! PeerTube isn’t blocked here. YouTube is though.
I get results searching for peertube on DDG.
Have you ever tried SearxNG? It’s a foss meta-search engine that anyone can host an instance of, or you can use some one else’s instance.
Add more links & highlights for contexts that were omitted by this lazy one:
Why should I use SearxNG? SearxNG has rolling releases, dependencies are updated more frequently, and engines are fixed faster. It is easy to set up your own public instance and monitor its performance and metrics. It is simple to maintain as an instance administrator. As a user, it provides a prettier user interface and nicer experience.
- List of instances: https://searx.space/
Might be a duckduckgo bug, but have you tried another search engine to see if it works there?
You’re in Safe search: strict mode. It probably thinks it’s a term for porn and therefore blocks it completely. Set it to moderate or off and you’ll get results.
