DuckDuckGo is the private search engine that holds no user data, which is probably what annoyed the Chinese authorities
DuckDuckGo, the search engine that focuses on user privacy, is facing some issues in China. The service has been blocked for users in the country.
The company confirmed for
Tech in Asia about the troubles the search engine is facing. Gabriel Weiberg, DuckDuckGo CEO, confirmed the news over Twitter.
While he is aware of the fact that the site is no longer accessible in China, he doesn’t know for sure when it happened.
GreatFire index of blocked sites indicates that the site may have been banned on September 4, but there’s been no official confirmation of the news.
DuckDuckGo has been working just fine for Chinese users since it was created. In the past year, it has seen an increase in traffic, mostly due to all the bad press Google, Bing and Yahoo were getting due to the NSA mass surveillance scandal. This is most likely what put DuckDuckGo on the radar of the Chinese authorities charged with keeping the Internet censored.
