Reviews for Startpage — Private Search Engine
Startpage — Private Search Engine by Startpage
Review by Firefox user 16253942
Rated 4 out of 5
by Firefox user 16253942, 4 months ago628 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 12624990, 12 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 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17738416, 19 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17190624, a month ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by ipep, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by 0pa, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by StanV, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16956087, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17704001, a month agoIch bin erst seit kurzem dabei. was ich über Startpage gelesen habe hat mich überzeugt.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13454490, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15957776, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by mad_dingo, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Seba, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Claudiu, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by trennor, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17008157, 2 months agoDe beste die er is, ik gebruik hem al jaren, Peter Uit Hoorn
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17636507, 2 months ago
- 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 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17652985, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by theskipster, 3 months ago
- 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 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17629772, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15613144, 3 months agoIch benutze Startpage seit Jahren aus sicherheitsgründen, mit Rücksicht auf die Daten meiner Schüler. Die Daten gehören mir!
- Rated 4 out of 5by Tomi Antenna, 4 months ago