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/TheyThem@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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      I had tried SearX. It was good until I tried searching in my native language… Guess I’ll have to use SearX for my English searches and DDG when it fails. Thank you for the info. I’ll read the links you included in your comment.