Reviews for Startpage — Private Search Engine
Startpage — Private Search Engine by Startpage
655 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Publius Maximus, 7 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 4 months 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, 7 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15613144, 7 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, 7 months ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 12362774, 7 months agoLief lange Zeit gut. Seit neustem werde ich in 9/10 Fällen auf https://www.startpage.com/errors/ weitergeleitet.
Developer response
posted 4 months agoVielen Dank für Ihre Bewertung.
Bitte stellen Sie sicher, dass Sie die URL www.startpage.com aufrufen. Wenn Sie Startpage als Lesezeichen oder Startseite gespeichert haben, empfehlen wir Ihnen, zu überprüfen, dass Sie eine aktuelle URL verwenden. Für weitere Fragen wenden Sie sich gerne an support@startpage.com. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17601624, 8 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 16253942, 8 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ThunderingRoar, 8 months agoSeems like the bright white flashbangs have been fixed, thanks
- Rated 5 out of 5by Bernhard, 9 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by SuperFly, 9 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 4 months 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 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17453176, 10 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15142503, 10 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.
Developer response
posted 4 months agoNosotros 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. - Rated 5 out of 5by Manaplayer, a year agoI use it everywhere as default search engine - Super thing!
But one thing about the addon: On the site of Startpage you can configure your custom style of the page. Because i'm not using cookies, i need to start on the custom url. This addon don't have a option to change it?Developer response
posted 4 months agoThanks for choosing Startpage! Combining the Settings URL with the add-on sounds like a cool new feature idea. We’ll share with our Product team.
Thanks for caring about privacy! - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17441005, a year ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 17422100, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by halfAsleep0451, a year ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by folgoris, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Steppenwolf1999, a year ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Damien Alleyne, a year agoIt works great. However, it is missing a very important feature: search suggestions. The add-on hasn't been updated in 2 years, so it seems we'll never get this feature. One will have to create this feature on the Mycroft Project.
Developer response
posted 4 months agoThanks for choosing Startpage! Search suggestions are available as part of our our other extension:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/startpage-privacy-protection/.
We might consider adding support for suggestions here, too, but our team is currently focused on major upgrades to our search experience. Thanks for the suggestion and for carving about privacy! - Rated 5 out of 5by Nani!!!, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17299245, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ysan, a year ago