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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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[โ€“] QuestionMark@vlemmy.net 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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.

[โ€“] Dirk@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[โ€“] goat@sh.itjust.works -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What would you recommend instead?

[โ€“] Dirk@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly? Google. They also censor stuff, but ...

[โ€“] goat@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

nah, gonna refuse that one. don't want to give google a cent if i can help it

[โ€“] abieNathanTheyThem@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.).

[โ€“] QuestionMark@vlemmy.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[โ€“] goat@sh.itjust.works -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

See if bing does the same. DuckDuckGo mobile kinda sucks

[โ€“] QuestionMark@vlemmy.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] goat@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

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