Just encountered this news -
"DuckDuckGo blocked in Indonesia over ..., gambling search results." which has dropped a bomb on me. I have never been in this country and always thought it is loyal to gambling. But it seems to be not. How does the matter lie at present? I wonder this because of my plans to visit Indonesia for a couple of weeks and when visiting countries for the first time I commonly show myself round the local casinos.
I often use this search tool. It promises to provide complete anonymity, so DuckDuckGo can be considered a kind of Thor in the world of browsers. And I want to say that the search in this browser does not show anything prohibited at all. They are much more decent than the native search engines in the country where I live. I think that the attempt to make claims from the state to this browser are far-fetched and dictated by some other reasons.
Because DuckDuckGo is more of a privacy centric search engine and so not just Indonesia, maybe many gamblers have been using it so that it's going to be hard to trace. But for sure the country ISP might have caught up and they reported it to their government and so the total banned or blocking of this popular search engine. So it make sense for them to do that. But the question is, what could be the next one? Gamblers are evolving too, and could be looking for the next search engine that will give them the result that they wanted, so this is going to be a cat and mouse game, in my opinion.