Just FYI: We don’t collect or share your personal information. The Startpage founders continue to run the company as before and they have control over the privacy components of Startpage. With this investment, we hope to further expand our privacy features & reach new users. You may have already seen some of these new initiatives taking place. 1) Unfiltered News Tab launched in November: https://www.startpage.com/blog/product-updates/launching-unp... 2) Privacy Please! Newsletter launched in last month: https://www.startpage.com/blog/company-updates/welcome-priva... 3) We're pushing out more info via our blog & social than before, giving greater insight into how we make money (https://www.startpage.com/blog/privacy-awareness/advertising...) and how we keep your search private (https://www.startpage.com/blog/privacy-awareness/how-does-st...)
Re:DuckDuckGo is good enough for regular use
by hiccuphippo on Friday March 06, 2020 @10:46AM
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You can use !s in ddg to get google results without google.
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Re:DuckDuckGo is good enough for regular use
by ignoramous on Friday March 06, 2020 @03:20PM
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I'm redirected to startpage for both !s and !sp from duckduckgo. Is there a setting I need to flip?
Re:DuckDuckGo is good enough for regular use
by xingyzt on Friday March 06, 2020 @07:49PM
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Startpage is a privacy-oriented proxy of Google search results.
Re:DuckDuckGo is good enough for regular use
by ignoramous on Saturday March 07, 2020 @07:27AM
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Weren't they bought by an ad-company recently? I used their anonymous browsing extensively, even if it was slow. I've all but stopped using them now.
Re:DuckDuckGo is good enough for regular use
by karinakarina on Monday March 09, 2020 @12:27PM
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Hi - Startpage person here. Sorry to hear you stopped using Startpage. We hope you'll give us another chance. Here's more info on the investment by System1/Privacy One: https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Artic...
Does that bring up Startpage results?