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		loopdoend on March 4, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Duck Duck Go's traffic has tripled in 2012 I wonder how much of this traffic is from Tor... Google blocks most searches routed via Tor exit nodes and the queries are rerouted to DDG by the tor browser (yay EFF!).

derrida on March 4, 2012 [–]

"Google blocks most searches routed by Tor exit nodes" - Really? I've never had a problem, but the last time I used Tor was a week ago. Has something changed?

thesnider on March 4, 2012 | [–]

They don't 'block' most of the searches -- they just put up a CAPTCHA before each SRP.

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