We're sorry your experience has taken a dip lately. Startpage is subjected to a substantial amount of automated abuse and scraping on a daily basis, which can be very costly financially and in terms of system performance. Accordingly, we have strong anti-abuse measures in place, which we continually work hard to improve. In some instances, normal users will set off one of our rules and be asked to verify they are not a bot.

Our Support team can work with you to release the block(s) on your searches so that this doesn't keep happening. Please don’t hesitate to contact us at support@startpage.com.