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

22 points by thewhitetulip ↗ HN
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

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pseudostem
Works for me, both on cellular and on home broadband. Would be good if you confirmed with your ISP first.
Garbage
Which ISP are you using? I can confirm I am able to access DuckDuckGo on Airtel. No issues at all.
jayanmn
Which provider..?

Tested with airtel and act. Works fine..

thewhitetulip
It wasn't working on Idea 10min before this post
22SAS
Stuff like this makes me happy that I don't live there anymore and never won't :)
surds
Can access on Jio fiber
currydove
Yep, in India and on Jio where it's working for fine for me.... For now.
Brajeshwar
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
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
Working for me. Pioneer broadband. Hyd.
msravi
I'm on ACT in Bangalore, and I can very much access DuckDuckGo

Edit: I can also access using Airtel mobile

dolores_tyrion
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)