Reviews for Startpage — Private Search Engine
Startpage — Private Search Engine by Startpage
48 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 12624990, 13 days agoStartpage is owned by an Data-Marketing company!
Developer response
posted 2 days agoIn January 2019, Startpage became a part of System1 and continues to be headquartered in the Netherlands. As promised, we have kept all our commitments never to change our privacy practices as well as adding more helpful private search features.
Please read this support article for a detailed explanation on the various contractual privacy protections we’ve put in place as a System1 company: https://support.startpage.com/hc/en-us/articles/5194985436948
In an effort to provide further transparency we make available our private search data flow,
detailing how personal data is protected: https://support.startpage.com/hc/en-us/articles/4455570359188
Please contact us at support@startpage.com if you have further questions. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13156335, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by KDV, 3 months agothis add-on truly prevents tracking of underlying guuuuuuugel search engine. but at the cost of a catastrophic and completely senseless loss of its functionality.
e.g. queries with "quoted" terms underlying guuuuuuuuuugel cracks like nuts, but this one just fails! instead of passing query down and returning result. but why - too simple?
another issue is overbloating user interaction with fucaptchas in places where underlying guuuuuuuugel just works'n's#it and - surprise - simply succeeds!
the worst thing is they know these issues about a year or more, but seems are not going to fix anything...Developer response
posted 2 days agoThanks for giving our extension a try. The same advanced search operators that work on Google, like the one you mentioned, will also work on Startpage. In regards to the CAPTCHAs, Startpage is subjected to 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.
If either you found a bug with how we handle search operators or believe you have been incorrectly blocked, please don’t hesitate to contact us at support@startpage.com. - Rated 1 out of 5by Publius Maximus, 3 months agoSeveral years ago I endorsed StartPage, but I dropped my endorsement when System 1 (an ad tech company) acquired both StartPage and the WaterFox browser. Beware. There is no telling what they may do with your data.
Developer response
posted 2 days agoIn January 2019, Startpage became a part of System1 and continues to be headquartered in the Netherlands. As promised, we have kept all our commitments to maintain all of our privacy practices as well as adding more helpful private search features.
Please read this support article for a detailed explanation on the various contractual privacy protections we’ve put in place as a System1 company: https://support.startpage.com/hc/en-us/articles/5194985436948
In an effort to provide further transparency we make available our private search data flow,
detailing how personal data is protected: https://support.startpage.com/hc/en-us/articles/4455570359188
And you can read Waterfox’s statement here: https://www.waterfox.net/blog/waterfox-has-joined-system1
Please contact us at support@startpage.com if you have further questions. - Rated 1 out of 5by SuperFly, 5 months agoBecome a Captcha-Pro with Startpage. Simply fill in a timed, multiple choice categorical questionnaire web-page detailing your specific VPN, ad-blocker or content blocker, device-identity changer, whether connected to TOR and other useful IDENTITY and TRACKING details - then its Captcha time. Time run out before you could finish the form and captcha? SURPRISE! Every time you use Startpage you fill out the questionable form and solve at least 1 captcha.
Developer response
posted 2 days agoUnfortunately, Startpage is subjected to automated abuse and scraping on a daily basis, which can be very costly financially and in terms of system performance; a lot of that traffic originates on VPNs and TOR. 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.
If you have been incorrectly blocked, please don’t hesitate to contact us at support@startpage.com. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15142503, 6 months agoYo tenía la extensión en español, pero de repente esta desapareció de mi navegador y al reinstalar la extensión solo me pone la versión en inglés, quiero de vuelta el startpage en español.
- Rated 1 out of 5by halfAsleep0451, 9 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by aths, a year agoIt seriously shows ads first in the search results. I always need to scroll past the ads to reach the actual results. It refuses to show the search results & gets broken, when ads-block or similar extensions like no-script are in action. Quite unexpected behavior considering the name "private search engine".
Developer response
posted 2 days agoThanks for trying Startpage. Ads are how we are able to provide a free private service. It might interest you to know that the team has been hard at work overhauling and improving the search experience. Among those improvements launching this month will be a reduced-ad experience on mobile.
From time to time, we do test the performance of our search results with extensions like the ones you mention and we haven’t found any major issues. In responding to your comment, we tested with several, including NoScript, and were able to pull up results just fine. With NoScript, the menus above the results disappeared, but that is to be expected unless you add us as a trusted domain. If you have any additional questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us at support@startpage.com.
Thanks for caring about privacy! - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13496425, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 11888982, a year agoHängt sich während der Installation auf. Lässt sich nicht installieren.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Dark Thoughts, 2 years agoHaving to solve a freaking captcha for every damn search, because I am using a VPN and / or private mode, is absolutely not reasonable.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16403751, 2 years agostartpage blockt wiederholt suchanfragen bei VPN Nutzung mit der Behauptung: "zu viele Suchanfragen in kurzer Zeit..."ein echtes nogo!
- Rated 1 out of 5by MYOB, 2 years agoWARNING...SUSPECT SCaMMER/SPAMMER ADD ON....Works maybe one is a dozen times otherwise a stupid message appears asking how you are 'working'....personally think it is either a spamming system or a scamming system and have now blocked it from our devices. Also have doubts about authenticity of claims that user data is secure.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13126925, 3 years agoThis is it. I done with this CAPTCHA checking :
Just checking ...
Settings Support Mail
As part of StartPage's ongoing mission to provide the best experience for our users, we occasionally need to confirm that you are a legitimate user. Completing the CAPTCHA below helps us reduce abuse and improve the quality of our services.
Thank you, The StartPage Team
Please enter the text below to continue using StartPage. - Rated 1 out of 5by nytro, 3 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Flume, 3 years agoStarts to block questions from TOR or open proxies, just like google. No longer useable for me and i no longer trust them. Now owned by a advertisment agency.
- Rated 1 out of 5by DailySurfer, 3 years agoWARNING! An advertising company called System1 has now huge impact on data collection of each user using Startpage because System1 has become majority shareholder. Do not use this search machine anymore!
Information:
(English):
https://www.datingnews.com/industry-trends/startpage-new-tools-allow-daters-to-browse-anonymously/
https://restoreprivacy.com/startpage-system1-privacy-one-group/
(German): https://tarnkappe.info/startpage-verkauft-firmen-anteile-an-system1-llc/.
Good alternatives are still DuckDuckgo (is subject to US-law) or with regards to European data protection regulations, the French search machine Qwant. - Rated 1 out of 5by fromCharCode, 3 years agoStartpage cannot be considered protecting your data anymore, since they are sold to system1 - a company earning money with personalized advertisement.
DO NOT USE THIS SEARCHENGINE! - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13869129, 3 years agoHabe startpage lange benutzt. Leider wurde es verkauft an ein Datensammelunternehmen! Sehr traurig. Wollen die ehemaligen Betreiber, die uns mit Datenschutz angeworben haben, mit dem Geld für den Verkauf jetzt glücklich werden oder wollen sie nur nach Kohle stinken???
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13975979, 3 years agoi wrote this until i read: BEWARE! Startpage was sold to an US company (System1 LCC). So that no longer trustworthy! !
WARNUNG! Startpage wurde an ein US Unternehmen (System1 LCC) verkauft. Damit nicht mehr vertrauenswürdig!
so until i dont made research...dont suggest___go duck
something good, apparently dont tracks, save logs, pot, pong, ping, wax, slam, xi, beam, team, Tintin, IN...DEED b4 in dead, you have to try_long life and prosperity guys and "guys". REALMENTE: è buono ed è un'ottima idea, quella di, se non altro, frammentare e celare più frammenti possibili agli ormai stabiliti Masters of Tracking observing to sell your soul keys to who wants to sell you feeding for your soul 4 moneys to buy air freshener and server to have algoritms of entire humans on the Planet_shit_ This helps but like duckduck, have not (yet) same fresh results like BigG have. BTW, you have to dont be stupid like sign in G accounts and then search...This, have some others useful functions. And for chrome i suggest duckduck vpn, try it also - Rated 1 out of 5by firefox2020, 3 years agoBEWARE! Startpage was sold to an US company (System1 LCC). So that no longer trustworthy!
WARNUNG! Startpage wurde an ein US Unternehmen (System1 LCC) verkauft. Damit nicht mehr vertrauenswürdig!
Details:
https://www.kuketz-blog.de/startpage-aeussert-sich-zur-beziehung-mit-system1-lcc/ - Rated 1 out of 5by Dahoon, 3 years agoBEWARE! Startpage was sold to a pay-per-click behavioral ad company.