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?
Ive used startpage.com for a while, it uses google results but anonymized. My biggest problem with it was that in couldnβt find local webpage in my home language anymore because of course the result werenβt personalized for my county anymore..
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
which DNS are you using when not conneted to a VPN?
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.
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.