look at the bottom of the image, they are adding srsltid tracking parameters to ProtonVPN, NordVPN, ExpressVPN and surfshark links any other website doesn’t have this kind of parameter.
According to research done this tracking is made by Google, which Startpage proxies, shouldn’t they remove those tracking paramters if they are truly a “private search engine”.
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