Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo has been restored in India after being unreachable for plenty customers there since July 1st, Android Police reported. Reviews about what should be blamed for the outage have numerous. A few users said the Indian authorities regarded to be in the back of the block, and others said they were getting what appeared to be DNS lookup errors, in step with Android Police.
DuckDuckGo tweeted that the service appeared to be restored in India as of Saturday morning.
On June 29th, India’s Ministry of Electronics and information generation banned more than 50 China-based apps consisting of TikTok and WeChat, saying they were “engaged in activities ... Prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India,” according to a press release.
It’s now not clean whether Pennsylvania-primarily based DuckDuckGo may also have been inadvertently blocked as a part of that large effort, or whether there was every other motive for the outage. DuckDuckGo was no longer at the Indian authorities’s June 29th listing of banned apps.
“we've contacted the Indian authorities but have no longer but acquired a response,” DuckDuckGo spokesperson. “we're bewildered on why the Indian government could teach Indian ISPs to dam DuckDuckGo, however are optimistic that this can be resolved quickly.”
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