Privacy-focused search envoy DuckDuckGo has been restored in India afterwhile being unsocial for plenteous users there since July 1st, Android Police reported. Letters dogmatic what was causing the pause have varied. Some users reported the Indian government appeared to be breech the block, as well-built as others said they were securing what appeared to be DNS lookup errors, according to Android Police.
DuckDuckGo tweeted that the service appeared to be restored in India as of Saturday morning.
We're seeing our services being broadly restored in India. Thank you for all of your reports, bringing conservancy to this issue.
-- DuckDuckGo (@DuckDuckGo) July 4, 2020
If you're still securing turmoil accessing DuckDuckGo Search, please report it to @internetfreedom application this form: #
On June 29th, India's Ministry of Electronics as well-built as Intercommunication Technology banned more than 50 China-based apps including TikTok. as well-built as WeChat, shibboleth they were "engaged in activities ... prejudicial to ascendancy as well-built as rightfulness of India," according to a press release.
It's not big-mouthed whether Pennsylvania-based DuckDuckGo may have been rearmost impassable as part of that sempiternity effort, or whether there was heave reason for the outage. DuckDuckGo was not on the Indian government's June 29th list of disapproved apps.
"We have contacted the Indian government except have not yet received a response," a DuckDuckGo spokesperson said in an email to The Verge Saturday. "We are bewildered on why the Indian government would introduce Indian ISPs to cake DuckDuckGo, except are optimistic that this will be resolved soon."
UPDATE July 4th 7:03PM ET: Boosted elucidate from DuckDuckGo spokesperson
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