WARNING...SUSPECT SCaMMER/SPAMMER ADD ON....Works maybe one is a dozen times otherwise a stupid message appears asking how you are 'working'....personally think it is either a spamming system or a scamming system and have now blocked it from our devices. Also have doubts about authenticity of claims that user data is secure.

Used it happily for some years. But since a few days the add-on doesnt return any result for any query. Disappointing. Will check back over a year or so.

This is it. I done with this CAPTCHA checking :


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Starts to block questions from TOR or open proxies, just like google. No longer useable for me and i no longer trust them. Now owned by a advertisment agency.

WARNING! An advertising company called System1 has now huge impact on data collection of each user using Startpage because System1 has become majority shareholder. Do not use this search machine anymore!
Information:
(English):
https://www.datingnews.com/industry-trends/startpage-new-tools-allow-daters-to-browse-anonymously/
https://restoreprivacy.com/startpage-system1-privacy-one-group/

(German): https://tarnkappe.info/startpage-verkauft-firmen-anteile-an-system1-llc/.
Good alternatives are still DuckDuckgo (is subject to US-law) or with regards to European data protection regulations, the French search machine Qwant.

Startpage cannot be considered protecting your data anymore, since they are sold to system1 - a company earning money with personalized advertisement.
DO NOT USE THIS SEARCHENGINE!

Habe startpage lange benutzt. Leider wurde es verkauft an ein Datensammelunternehmen! Sehr traurig. Wollen die ehemaligen Betreiber, die uns mit Datenschutz angeworben haben, mit dem Geld für den Verkauf jetzt glücklich werden oder wollen sie nur nach Kohle stinken???

i wrote this until i read: BEWARE! Startpage was sold to an US company (System1 LCC). So that no longer trustworthy! !

WARNUNG! Startpage wurde an ein US Unternehmen (System1 LCC) verkauft. Damit nicht mehr vertrauenswürdig!

so until i dont made research...dont suggest___go duck

something good, apparently dont tracks, save logs, pot, pong, ping, wax, slam, xi, beam, team, Tintin, IN...DEED b4 in dead, you have to try_long life and prosperity guys and "guys". REALMENTE: è buono ed è un'ottima idea, quella di, se non altro, frammentare e celare più frammenti possibili agli ormai stabiliti Masters of Tracking observing to sell your soul keys to who wants to sell you feeding for your soul 4 moneys to buy air freshener and server to have algoritms of entire humans on the Planet_shit_ This helps but like duckduck, have not (yet) same fresh results like BigG have. BTW, you have to dont be stupid like sign in G accounts and then search...This, have some others useful functions. And for chrome i suggest duckduck vpn, try it also

BEWARE! Startpage was sold to an US company (System1 LCC). So that no longer trustworthy!

WARNUNG! Startpage wurde an ein US Unternehmen (System1 LCC) verkauft. Damit nicht mehr vertrauenswürdig!

Details:
https://www.kuketz-blog.de/startpage-aeussert-sich-zur-beziehung-mit-system1-lcc/

BEWARE! Startpage was sold to a pay-per-click behavioral ad company.

StartPage wirbt für Datenschutz, wurde aber von einer Werbefirma (System1) aufgekauft. Ich rate von der Benutzung ab.

Absolute garbage - can't use Startpage.com in browser after installing. BREAKS STARTPAGE IMHO

owned by an advertising company. no trust

Has become worse over time.

Been a long term user of Startpage. I did NOT expect this to happen! I have removed this add on and. of course, I do not use and will not ever use Startpage again. The previous review posted a source link, as I cant stress this enough for people who are still using Startpage or considering to do so, please reconsider!

I will sign my review by posting the source link too: https://reclaimthenet.org/startpage-buyout-ad-tech-company/

Been bought by a click advertising company you've flushed your integrity down the drain. Go figure why I uninstalled.

Source: https://reclaimthenet.org/startpage-buyout-ad-tech-company/

Look how active Startpage have been replying to the comments and questions, and now its been totally quiet here.
Startpage, who promised "real privacy" have after all this years partnered with the ad-company System1 (I think anyone understand that they are anything but privacy friendly) something i did not expect to happen, not with Startpage, but i (and many others) was wrong.

Dear Startpage, you proved yourself being a scam. Users trust is hard to gain, now when letting your true shady fake face shine, you dont deserve any trust whatsoever.

Also a long time Startpage fan. Its really sad and a big surprise. I did not expect Startpage to take this path. RIP Startpage.

Longtime fan of Startpage. This is truly concerning and sad. I’ve gotten emotionally so invested in Startpage,often even recommending it to people over DuckDuckGo these days and their anonymous view was also quite a great feature.

Startpage has been around for many many years, I would never have expected this to happen, to be honest.

Startpage - Take back your privacy by using Startpage.com. High quality search results without ads.

And sold to a ad company by the name System1 ?
Maybe you can consider changing the extension and the promising words? Its pretty misleading for being a "Private Search Engine" without trackers and ads, that now are sold to System1, one of the bigger ad crap companies out there.

A shame really.

The latest update requires "access to all tabs." I don't care WHAT new functionality you were trying to add or that you're "actively pursuing other options," you should have WAITED until you found another option BEFORE you pushed an update out.