Is duckduckgo just now starting to censor searches, or was this already a thing for them? (AskVoat)

submitted ago by DrSelfAppointed

I noticed the other day on my phone Duckduckgo didn't have a link for Hooktube when searched. Now even on desktop it's no longer displaying results for the site. Unless my memory is just that shit, I am sure I have used Duckduckgo to get to Hooktube before

Anyone else can confirm or notice any other sites being? Hell, Stormfront shows up, so it might be google pressure?

EDIT*

Am I just retarded and hooktube is not interested in being indexed?

slope ago

gfags probably hit them with a "thin content manual action"

the_hidden_metric ago

So what is wrong with ddg? just that it gets similar results to Google? as long as it's not tracking me who cares?

tendiesonfloor ago

Hooktube doens't index.

zeitalter ago

DuckDuckGo is ran by a jew whose previous project was a social networking site. I suggest using searx or startpage instead.

DrSelfAppointed ago

Thanks for the serchx

tendiesonfloor ago

If you're boycotting every business and service that has a jew working for them then you're going to end up having almost zero options for just about anything and everything.

heretolearn ago

doesn't google give money to ddg.

123_456 ago

Hooktube not showing for me too.

Le_Squish ago

I know random shit and sometimes it might be relevant.

Websites can be configured to disallow indexing. Hooktube got reason to hide.

fartyshorts ago

I know it as well, but that is not the case. Hooktube is still indexed by Google and the robots.txt is not set up to block crawling. It seems it has been scrubbed from DuckDuckGo, which is strange.

DuckDuckGo uses the Bing/Yahoo index, along with some smaller sources. I guess hooktube is banned from there?

DrSelfAppointed ago

What do you use now?

Le_Squish ago

Maybe hooktube no want to be indexed?

awshidahak ago

From https://hooktube.com/robots.txt

User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 500
Disallow:/api
Disallow:/category
Disallow:/user
Disallow:/channel
Disallow:/results
Disallow:/random

Youtube, however, seems to have no robots.txt,

DrSelfAppointed ago

I honestly had not considered that...