Sorry you’ve had difficulty using Startpage! Please write to support@startpage.com, who can help get you unblocked. And we’re working on enhancements to our maps and shopping offerings, so stay tuned.

As you may know, 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 like you will set off one of our rules.

Thanks for your patience and for caring about privacy.

Startpage ist täglich automatisiertem Missbrauch und Scraping ausgesetzt, was sehr kostenintensiv sein kann. Daher haben wir strenge Maßnahmen zur Missbrauchsbekämpfung eingeführt, an denen wir aber auch ständig nacharbeiten. Hin und wieder treffen diese Maßnahmen aber eben leider auch legitime User, wie eben in Ihrem Fall.

Wenn Sie hier möglicherweise einen Fehler gefunden haben oder glauben, dass Sie fälschlicherweise gesperrt wurden, zögern Sie bitte nicht, uns unter support@startpage.com zu kontaktieren. Wir freuen uns über Ihre Nachricht!

In 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. We do not collect or share personal data with anyone, including other divisions within System1.

This article contains 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

And 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

Lastly, in regards to privacy add-ons, we generally find performance and functionality holds up pretty well with a host of different add-ons. If you are experiencing an issue with one or more of them, feel free to contact us at support@startpage.com.

Sorry you experienced an outage. We aren’t aware of any site downtime and no one else has reported any. It would be helpful for us to know what you saw, and when, so if you would be willing, contact us at support@startpage.com and let us know what your experience was. Thanks for caring about privacy!

Clever! Hadn’t thought of StopPage 🙂

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.

At the time of your review, some users were experiencing a brief outage, a matter we quickly resolved. Please let us know if you continue to experience any issues. We hope you’ll choose to stick with Startpage. And if this works for you, maybe you would be open to reconsidering your rating.

Thanks for caring about privacy!

In 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.

In 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.

Unfortunately, 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.

Nosotros solo proporcionamos Startpage Privacy Protection en Ingles y Alemán. Puede ser que hay otro problema con tu configuración o que instalo otra extensión. Por favor contacts nuestro equipo de apoyo a support@startpage.com y te podemos ayudar con las configuraciones para que tengas acceso a Startpage en Español.

Thanks 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!