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Not blocked here.
I'm from India as well. It's not blocked on Airtel broadband for me, but any requests to DuckDuckGo initially shows a DNS resolution failure (don't remember what the exact error was). And after 5-10 seconds, the page loads as expected.
It’s working with green-tunnel to bypass Jio’s SNI based blocking.
So surely, it’s blocked, not some server issues.
I heard India has been banning a lot of Chinese sites, which makes sense, since India and China have been fighting. It is normal to restrict trade with your enemies. But what other motivations are there for India to ban things? Is there general censorship or something?
I worked on a site targeting an Indian user base for a bit, and in order to be allowed to operate in India, we had to partner with an Indian company that basically had veto power over any part of the process. I think this is a smart strategy. Keep in mind, India gained independence in 1947--there are people alive (although not many) who remember India being a colony. Indians are very aware of the post-colonial activi…
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I'm from India as well. It's not blocked on Airtel broadband for me, but any requests to DuckDuckGo initially shows a DNS resolution failure (don't remember what the exact error was). And after 5-10 seconds, the page loads as expected.
I’m on Jio 4G. DDG has been inconsistent since yesterday. Now it’s not working at all. It’s working with green-tunnel to bypass Jio’s SNI based blocking. So surely, it’s blocked, not some server issues.