Startpage is owned by an ad-tech agency (System1). While Startpage might truly keep data private, it’s non-obvious why a System1, a publicly traded US company, would want an ownership stake in a “private search engine”. Though System1 alleges that they have no plans to tinker with Startpage, it’s u…

I disagree with your assumption, but if you really want a clean and private search engine without bloat, try Mojeek.

I’ve already tried Mojeek. Their search quality is terrible . Honestly, I think the article is too vague to determine how they got the push token. I would like to see where The Washington Post is getting their sources from.

There is no custom links for saving preferences in brave search like DDG and startpage.

I just make site exceptions on Firefox and Brave, which solved that issue.

I just voted yes. StartPage has apparently started to fingerprint users and Thoughts on Startpage app? are concerning from me. Plus, Brave Search is now very good. It even has started to localise results better. And Duck remains a good in general option.

Okay, I’ve got a response: Thank you for bringing this to our attention and we are investigating this further.

I believe Startpage should be removed. Because they are hostile to VPNs and Tor, often asking for a Captcha when accessing from Tor.

[image] anon24306951: Because they are hostile to VPNs and Tor, often asking for a Captcha when accessing from Tor. While I agree it should be removed, I don’t think they are hostile to TOR as they now have an onion site. Duck also ask for Captchas. Now if they are horrible Google Captchas, t…

It should be removed, yes, but your second sentence is inaccurate; they don’t anymore .

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I’ve emailed Startpage about the srsltid tracker, although I am not expecting a timely response.

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