Users on Reddit have noticed they’re unable to access the site on their Airtel and Reliance Jio mobile network connections. While Some users on Twitter have further suggested multiple internet service providers (ISP) have blocked the site.
Confirmed that @DuckDuckGo is being blocked by multiple ISPs in India, including: Vodafone 4G (HTTP HOST-based)Airtel 4G (DNS-based, SNI-based)Jio 4G (SNI-based) ACT not blocking it yet. https://t.co/HSynullIIS — Gurshabad Grover (@GurshabadGrover) July 1, 2020
— kushaldas https://toots.dgplug.org/@kushal (@kushaldas) July 1, 2020
— Gaurav Chaturvedi (@oddtazz) July 1, 2020 There’s no clarity at the moment if there’s an order from India’s telecom authority to block the site. We have reached out to telecom companies and internet service providers to find out more, and we’ll update the story if we hear back. Meanwhile, DuckDuckGo confirmed on Twitter that it’s looking into the issue and suggested Android users change their DNS provider to get around the issue. It also added that there’s no issue on the server-side.
Here’s how to set it up on Android: https://t.co/CeNuiZiHKw — DuckDuckGo (@DuckDuckGo) July 1, 2020
Download now: https://t.co/U6m1AWXxjU pic.twitter.com/nqnZPPkHjN — The Tor Project (@torproject) July 1, 2020 In May, DoT sent an order to ISPs to block popular file transfer site WeTransfer citing security reasons. However, there was no explanation as to what security threat WeTransfer posed.
