Residents of China can no longer anonymous search with DuckDuckGo. The safe search engine appears briefly blocked by the Chinese government. Since
DuckDuckGo is now the default search engine in Apple’s Safari browser. Since whistleblower Edward Snowden told his story about the espionage activities of secret services, the service saw its visitor numbers increase significantly. Unlike Google, the site does not collect information from visitors.
In 2013 there was a billion times sought with DuckDuckGo. That may seem like a lot, but that the service can not even stand in the shadow of Google. The most popular search engine in the world processed monthly ten billion queries.
Join the club
In China supports DuckDuckGo joined the long list of blocked websites in China. Residents of China can not use Google services, including Gmail and YouTube. Also, Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox and blog platforms Blogspot and WordPress are just a few examples.
however been temporarily blocked but accessible. Now again some websites This applies, for various Torrent and porn websites, but also for some Wikipedia articles.
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