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Are you sure about Odysee? When I search it on DDG, it shows Odysee as the first result. Every subsequent result on the first page is a post or article about Odysee, except for a URL to lbry.

FWIW I have safe search and advertisements turned off, region set to "All Regions" and language set to English. Re-trying with safe search strict and I still get the same results.

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Yes, I’m sure. It’s been happening to me a lot with DDG lately. Unfortunately, I haven’t been keeping track of the circumstances, but it seems to correlate with my usage of iCloud Private Relay. I suspect it happens when I’m routed through either Cloudflare or Akamai, but not both. Waiting 10 minutes tends to result in a new route.

It’s very odd behavior, but when it happens, it’s as though a particular organization is scrubbed from the search results. I’m regularly researching controversial organizations, so I find this particularly inconvenient, but at least it’s conspicuous.

Occasionally it’ll happen to mainstream sites such as Hulu. That leads me to believe it may be some sort of regional or safe search glitch, but the correct results will eventually reappear without changing any settings. Regardless of the cause, it comes across as censorship—even Wikipedia will be missing from the results.

DDG's not giving me a Wikipedia result for Odysee, but I'm not surprised either, because DDG rarely gives me Wikipedia results for queries in general. Eg I just searched for "dog" and Wikipedia is not in the first page's ten results (two dictionaries, four lists of breeds, two youtube videos, a shelter, and "dog.com"), while it's number one in Google's results.

Kagi seems to be doing great in this regard.

https://i.imgur.com/fHSbPra.png

I have verified that every single result is relevant. I do not believe there is any censorship of these results in my case.

Anyone else? https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Odysee&ia=web

The first results:

odysee.com https://odysee.com

apps.apple.com https://apps.apple.com › us › app › odysee › id1539444143

Odysee: The New YouTube for the Far-Right - GNET Search domain gnet-research.org https://gnet-research.org › 2021 › 02 › 17 › odysee-the-new-youtube-for-the-far-right

Odysee Overview - Reclaim The Net reclaimthenet.org https://reclaimthenet.org › odysee-overview

reclaimthenet.org https://reclaimthenet.org › odysee-better-than-youtube

Odysee: a new video platform backed by LBRY publish0x.com https://www.publish0x.com › ghastly-gaming › odysee-a-new-video-platform-backed-by-lbry-xpjklpk

Odysee aims to build a more freewheeling, independent ... techcrunch.com https://techcrunch.com › 2020 › 12 › 07 › odysee-launch

Free Odysee Video Downloader HD Quality Fast pastedownload.com https://pastedownload.com › odysee-video-downloader

LBRY - Content Freedom Search domain lbry.com https://lbry.com

Etc

I see exactly the same as you - located in EU.

I am located in the EU too. Maybe that's why we see uncensored results? As an American, I sure hope not.

What is weird is that if you accept the suggested spell check: Search only for "Odysee"? You get an entirely different set of results, with Odysee filtered out. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22Odysee%22

Can confirm. That is really weird

That's weird but I still see results talking about Odysee in the results. Mostly blogs and whatnot with extreme fringe conspiracy stuff like "graphene razor blade" in vaccines and reptilians, pointing to various social media handles including Odysee.

Yup, this is what is happening to me as well.

The answer to why some of you are seeing different test results from each other is context: you, your location, and other identifying information they can use in their firewall rules. If you are testing with SMS, the carrier knows who you are. DDG is supposed to be user neutral, but the Azure server serving the Bing results may have some information such as location. I do not know the relationship between DDG and MS and what data is shared.

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