Qwant actively block southparkuncensored.com

Most other search engines show https://www.southparkuncensored.com/ after searching for "south park uncensored" or "southparkuncensored", but Bing doesn't, and therefore DuckDuckGo and Qwant neither.

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Is it a surprise? Bing is controlled by M$, and their search results are taken by Qwant and DDG. Ecosia also runs with google results so it isn't affected.
- Jokes on you, i tried using qwant and they just straight up deny me access because using a VPN apparently is "suspicious".
- Wait Ecosia switched from Bing to Google?
  Startpage was the only commercial search engine indexing Google from my knowledge.
  
  Ecosia uses both but they do use the bing ads system

Damn shame. I use DDG, but them consistently fucking up makes me want to switch. Though i don't know of any alternatives.
edit: thanks for the recommendations!
- Kagi. Privacy focussed, no ads, and excellent results with options for sorting preferred sources to appear at the top, or not. Costs money but man, it’s fast and good in the way Google was back in the day. Some plans also include anonymous access to a variety of LLMs though they are older models, and if they can run them locally, they do. Really liking it.
  
  FWIW the founder of Kagi is adamant that subscribers must accept part of the subscruption money being sent to Russia (Yandex, fully govt-controlled) and has refused all attempts at excluding it. When questions started appearing he even tried claiming Yandex isn't even russian.
  
  I'll give the trial a go, thank you for the recommendation
  
  Which country are Kagi servers hosted in?
  
  I swapped to Kagi this month. It's refreshing. I'll probably end up on the $10/month plan. They also have a library pilot program I'm trying to get my academic library to look into.
- SearXNG instances, bravesearch, startpage, etc...
  
  Doesn't startpage use google, though? Wouldn't it still be affected?
  I will try searxng/brave, thank you
- https://leta.mullvad.net/ uses Brave or Google
  https://searx.space/ uses any of the big search engines you want, you do have to pick an instance
  
  https://leta.mullvad.net/ uses Brave or Google
  thanks for this one. i'm currently trying out their encrypted and adblocking dns on the hotspot i set up on dietpi to isolate 'streaming' devices, comparing its effectiveness to pihole and adguard home.
  
  Thanks! I think i'm set on searxng + some other stuff i'd like to try.
- Best one is probably (in my opinion) selfhosting a searxng instance. It takes results from a dozen of engines (you configure which ones) and merges them according to the configured weights and some algorithmic magic.
  If you use public instances, the owner might have tuned the results to suit themselves and it returns garbage for your usecase. And also they frequently get timeouts because a lot of people use them. So don't get turned off by trying a couple of them.
  Since I started running my own private instance I am super happy with the search results.
  
  Thanks for the recommendation!
- Startpage is similarly anonymous, but it uses Google search
  
  And is owned by an ad company afaik
- Yacy? You can self host if you want.
  
  I've heard of it before but never dug into it, will do. Thanks
- searxng and 4get are great alternatives

Context is needed. What is that site? And why do you believe search results about it are being censored?
- To be honest, the poster is "SPU," so this is probably 90% to promote the site. (Not that I really care that much in this case, I like South Park and think episodes that have Muhammad in them should still be available despite religious extremists being upset.)

DDG is more of a privacy frontend for Bing then its own search engine. Typically if its not on Bing its not gonna be on DDG.
Works on both Brave and Google via Mullvad Leta

Kagi is unaffected.
- I guess you are supporting my assertion?

AFAIK, Yandex doesn't censor piracy stuff.
- ....Yandex, you mean Russia?
  
  shock horror
  
  Yeah. It's unacceptable. Still, I dare to say (and I hate to say it), Yandex has the best search engine index by far.

Sadly all those search engines directly or indirectly censor piracy results. I use DDG daily but they sadly do a lot of censoring results of various kinds, even just political.

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