Review by Firefox user 12624990
Rated 1 out of 5
by Firefox user 12624990, 3 years agoStartpage is owned by an Data-Marketing company!
Developer response
posted 3 years 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.
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.
740 reviews
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- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19902880, 3 days ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by AjarAdore, 10 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19882925, 14 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Perkinelma, 14 days ago1) Searching from the address bar reveals your search to your ISP
2) Searches from the address bar default to Safe Search: Moderate and there's no way to change that.
Just use a bookmark instead or make Startpage your home page. - Rated 1 out of 5by Tommi, 25 days agoIn letzter Zeit sehr häufige Serverprobleme mit 404. Eine Suchmaschine, die man suchen muss ist Schrott.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18844418, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18181735, 3 months agoI was so excited to find this as an alternative to Google, but it's been taking up my searches with animated popups right in the way of my search, asking me to add them to my Ad-block Whitelist and to try their new AI tool.
It's actively getting in the way of searches and harming the user experience. I'm not a fan of DuckDuckGo's results and policies, but I'm switching back. - Rated 5 out of 5by Sara, 4 months agoThis is the ONLY search engine that hasn't included clankers like Gemini or Duck.AI (PLEASE advertise this, this is a major thing for me). On top of that, it is functional, and cares about my privacy. It's the trifecta!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19517792, 7 months agoIt seems to me that nearly all issues mentioned by reviews that are not 5 starts are not relevant anymore. Thanks for a great search engine that actually shows me results. On google, searching for "PCGarage free delivery" gets me an Emag result first, that isn't sponsored...how the heck does that work?...
- Rated 1 out of 5by seeley, 7 months agoCannot search from the address bar without my ISP seeing what I'm searching. Please keep the search terms OUT OF THE ADDRESS BAR when searching from the address bar with Startpage. Is there a way to manually configure a Startpage search string so the search terms do not populate the address bar- when searching from the address bar with Startpage? Thanks.
NEVERMIND: I'm getting hit with "Sponsored" BS a the top of my search results. Back to DDG. - Rated 5 out of 5by narancasta, 9 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19145735, 9 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Love, 10 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19072892, 10 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13508883, 10 months agoI went to the startpage site because duckduckgo was having issues briefly, and I added the search add-on, the type that you used to get on mycroft, in case I ran into trouble like that again. When I did this, it surreptitiously went ahead and installed this full browser extension as well. The process was either without my consent, or made to look like I was consenting to the thing I actually wanted.
Go figure, sketchy behavior by the company that used to use Alex Jones as a poster boy. I'm ticking with Duckduckgo, but I was alwas going to. This just confirmed my feelings about Startpage.Developer response
posted 10 months agoThanks for caring about privacy. Our extension follows normal installation steps and requires consent. Nothing is installed until you confirm using the standard Firefox dialogs. - Rated 4 out of 5by LuccaLuke, 10 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 7035236, 10 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Ariel, a year agoVery handy search engine but startpage.com is not available in China /(ㄒoㄒ)/~
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19026513, a year ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by 18skeltor, a year ago"Server Not Found" and abysmal wait times. No, it's not my connection.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Faux Floras, a year agoSimilar to Duckduckgo and Brave but does not give detailed AI answers like Deepfind
Developer response
posted a year agoWe recently launched PrivateAI in our iOS and will be making it available on other platforms soon.