Even more strange is that when I type “PeerTube”, some suggestions appear, but searching any of them will end up back on the “no results found” page.

The suggestions: Searching one of them:

It has been a few weeks since I first encountered this issue. I’ve tried again and again, but it never worked.

  • Gresham Law@lemmygrad.ml
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    You could be dealing with a Spyware poisoning your search engine results or it’s done on a large scale deep packet inspection on the networks you’re using.

    In the meantime I recommend Searx, it’s an open-source metasearch engine.

    Just to be clear Duckduckgo isn’t at fault & always uses a VPN it’s the least you can do to protect yourself online (If there are financial struggles ProtonVPN is a free & open source reliable alternative.).

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      1 year ago

      I had tried SearX. It was good until I tried searching in my own language… Guess I’ll have to use SearX for my English searches and DDG when it fails. Thank you for the info.