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DuckDuckGo goes offline in India; privacy focused search engine in talks with ISPs to resolve issue


BENGALURU: Privacy targeted search engine DuckDuckGo isn’t working in India, which the corporate stated was not attributable to any technical glitch on its half and was speaking to web servcie suppliers within the nation to resolve it.

“To our users in India: We’ve received many reports our search engine is unreachable by much of India right now and have confirmed it is not due to us,” DuckDuckGo wrote in a tweet.

DuckDuckGo has emerged because the second most used search engine on the planet after Google, attributable to its give attention to privateness. The search engine says it would not accumulate any private data on those that use it. It additionally would not throw up the IP address of the consumer. DuckDuckGo is more and more standard amongst customers who don’t need to have their searches on-line traced.

” We’re actively talking to Internet providers to get to the bottom of it ASAP. Thank you for your patience,” the search engine tweeted. It offered an alternate.

In the meantime it seems switching to a third-party DNS supplier fixes the difficulty, e.g. the extra personal 1.1.1.1, it tweeted. DNS is area title system that permits internet browsers entry a specific web site on the web.

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