DuckDuckGo Now Blocked In China
wabrandsma sends this news from Tech In Asia:
Privacy-oriented search engine DuckDuckGo is now blocked in China. On Sunday DuckDuckGo founder and CEO Gabriel Weinberg confirmed to Tech in Asia that the team has noticed the blockage in China on Twitter. DuckDuckGo had been working fine in mainland China since its inception, aside from the occasional 'connection reset' experienced when accessing many overseas websites from within the country. But now the search engine is totally blocked in China. ... [T]he GreatFire index of blocked sites suggest that DuckDuckGo got whacked on September 4. DuckDuckGo joins Google in being censored and blocked in the nation. Google, after years of being throttled by China's Great Firewall since the web giant turned off its mainland China servers in 2010, was finally blocked totally in June this year.
Congrats?
duckduckgo is my favorite search engine. theirs is the only site that has a clearly written privacy policy. also, with ios8, ddg is now a default option in safari which I appreciate.
People searching from China without Google, Bing, Duckduckgo, etc should be banned from reaching their 'approved' results in the U.S.
Censoring the internet is becoming so crucial for the political control of massive states that virtually all countries on the planet practice it in some manner.
As a Chinese (well, Hong Konger, but frequently visiting the mainland) Bing is not blocked in China. But it redirect to bing.cn, which is filtered by the government.
I thought the Chinese loved duck.
How do new programmers and new sysadmins survive in china? I suppoose they have to rote learn all their reference books.
....and a dash of irony and a twist of silly symbolic gesturing. Its a pictogram like a Chinese character delivered from the government of Chinese characters. Its a quaint gesture of authority that is a very effective at getting our attention, but ultimately completely ineffective of meaningful results. They may delay, but they will not be successful at censoring reality from the appropriate or prescribed Chinese social conscious. I always liked the Peking Duck....sorry to see it duck duck Go.
How did they manage to block Google, Google has thousands of domain names which feed advertising and fonts and NSA monitoring. Google literally has thousands of domain names to feed websites for monitoring purposes. Other than that there are literally thousands of search engines almost every country in the world as their own search engines. It is a good idea to stay away from English-language search engines you get the same results regardless of which one you use. Search Engine Index WorldWide: English, Dansk, Deutsch, Español, FranÃais, Italiano, Norsk, PortuguÃs, Bahasa Melayu, Polski, Romanesc, Suomi, Svensk, Tiáng Viát, TürkÃe, ÎÎÎÎνÎÎÎ, ÑÑfÑÑÐÐÐ ÑÐÑÐ, ÑfÐÑÐÑ--нÑÑOEÐРмоÐÐ, ØØ±ØÙ, ØÙÙØØ© ØÙØØ±ØÙSØ©, àààà¥à¦à¥, äæ-, æ--¥æoeèz, íoeêì-, Afrikaans, Shqipe, Ð'ÐÐÐÑÑfÑÐÐÑ, Ð'ÑSÐÐÐÑÑÐÐ, CatalÃ, Hrvatska, ÄOEeÅtina, Nederlandse, Eesti, Filipino, Galego, ××'××(TM)×, Magyar, Ãslenska, Gaeilge, LatvieÅu, ÐoeÐÐÐÐонÑÐÐ, Malti, ÙØØ±ØÛOE, ÐÑÐÑÐÐ, SlovenÄina, Slovenski, Kiswahili, àà--à, Cymraeg, ×(TM)×(TM)Ö×"×(TM)ש, ÕÕÕÕ¥ÖÕ¥Õ, AzÉ(TM)rbaycan, Euskal, áf¥áfáfáf--áf£áfsáf, KreyÃl ayisyen SearchEnginesIndex.com
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When countries like China (and North Korea, Middle Eastern countries, etc) start blocking something, it is a clear indication the authors have been doing a very good job. Better than a hundred reviews. I will switch to duckduckgo today.
looks useful, but could do with being expanded to cover other countries as well that are forcing their ISPs to block websites... e.g. UK...
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Last time I was in mainland China (about 2 years ago) I was able to use google.hk -- it wasn't blocked outright. However, it did appear to be throttled in some way. So searches took ages and it was a pain in the ass. One my Chinese friends said the she always used google.hk, even though it was slow, because she preferred the search results. So at least at the time, it was usable in practice. Also, I heard that the more tech savvy people in China know how to bypass the firewall. I don't know the details so can't verify, but apparently it's quite common knowledge.
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It's blocked in the mainland now, sadly. So is gmail, unless you have the IMAP.
I've sold people solutions to how to get around the firewall actually, to people in HK who want to access stuff when traveling to the mainland. Simplest way is VPN, but you must set it up in HK because mainland blocks VPN websites so you can't download the softwares or get the IP adresses.
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The simply changed the name to DuckPeckinDuckGo
Why not block all search crawling from china that enters US servers? (might block spam as a secondary effect)
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