Comment by berkut
2 years ago
Yeah, I've noticed this as well with DDG recently: even with the localised checkbox disabled it still prioritises them, which often is very frustrating as the results are then almost totally useless.
However, more generally, I've personally found that DDG (and maybe Bing's then?) localised results are just really bad, and have been for the multiple years I've been using DDG and it's had this feature: I'm in New Zealand, and enabling localised / region-based search still often provides results to pages with TLDs like "co.uk", ".ca" and ".pl" (these latter are really common for content-generated spam in my experience), which I just can't understand...
Unfortunately, I have found that Google's results are usually a lot better in terms of being "location-aware" than DDG, at least when that's what you want...
That's a bit surprising that you're seeing spam sites with .ca, those are illegal here and all .ca domains must be registered by someone in Canada.
You can report them: https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/canada-anti-spam-legislatio...
I habe the same experience from Germany. There's the slider but it's not doing mich.