711 reviews
- Rated 2 out of 5by 1nfered-Data, a year agoTo be honest the website itself it great, but the addon sucks. How are you going to make a privacy oriented addon that cannot save my preferences when Private Browsing is enabled by default? Like every time I restart my browser I get defaulted preferences, not cool. Not to mention if I have safe search disabled but use the search bar the addon defaults to Safe Mode (ON) like what? This addon isn't good at all
Developer response
posted a year agoThanks for taking the time to leave us your feedback. We're glad you enjoy our service! Apologies for the inconvenience. Our extension does not currently support storing settings, but that's a great suggestion. Given that you are only running Private Browsing windows, if you want your Settings to stick, you'll need to search from the site itself, not the URL bar. Accessing Startpage by bookmarking the Settings URL would be a way to cut down on having to change your settings every time.
https://support.startpage.com/hc/en-us/articles/4616244515476
Thanks for caring about privacy. Feel free to contact us at support@startpage.com to discuss other potential workarounds. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17994870, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by DOBOBEAR, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17971199, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17921959, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17748048, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Sage, 2 years agohavent been able to use for days on and off because my ip was flagged/blocked, annoying. hope its fixed soon. startpage is my go-to for general browsing but features are more limited in things like maps and shopping
Developer response
posted a year agoSorry you’ve had difficulty using Startpage! Please write to support@startpage.com, who can help get you unblocked. And we’re working on enhancements to our maps and shopping offerings, so stay tuned.
As you may know, Startpage is subjected to automated abuse and scraping on a daily basis, which can be very costly financially and in terms of system performance. Accordingly, we have strong anti-abuse measures in place, which we continually work hard to improve. In some instances, normal users like you will set off one of our rules.
Thanks for your patience and for caring about privacy. - Rated 5 out of 5by rso, 2 years agoVor allem freue ich mich, dass keine Werbung für die amerikanischen Großkonzerne vor den Suchergebnissen erscheint.
Ich fühle mich sicherer als bei google. Allerdings sind die Suchergebnisse meist leicht unterschiedlich. Ich verwende Startpage seit Jahren. - Rated 1 out of 5by leric, 2 years agoStartpage war bis vor kurzem meine liebste Suchmaschine.
Jetzt kann ich allerdings wegen irgendeiner Überprüfung nach einer Captcha-Validierung, die dauernd fehlschlägt, keine Suchen mehr über Startpage tätigen und muss entsprechend andere Suchmaschinen nutzen. Das stört und da sich offenbar nichts tut, werde ich Startpage leider entfernen, kann keine Empfehlung aussprechen und muss mich nach einer funktionierenden Alternative umsehen.Developer response
posted 2 years agoStartpage ist täglich automatisiertem Missbrauch und Scraping ausgesetzt, was sehr kostenintensiv sein kann. Daher haben wir strenge Maßnahmen zur Missbrauchsbekämpfung eingeführt, an denen wir aber auch ständig nacharbeiten. Hin und wieder treffen diese Maßnahmen aber eben leider auch legitime User, wie eben in Ihrem Fall.
Wenn Sie hier möglicherweise einen Fehler gefunden haben oder glauben, dass Sie fälschlicherweise gesperrt wurden, zögern Sie bitte nicht, uns unter support@startpage.com zu kontaktieren. Wir freuen uns über Ihre Nachricht! - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 17920008, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by AlwaysAndrew8, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16934230, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Andrés Duhoru, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Singani, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17890976, 2 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17699252, 2 years agoThere is no option for a zero rating. I guess we don't have to worry about Startpage selling our data to advertising companies. They are there own advertising company. Much easier to just keep it all in-house.
Performance wise, its about the same speed as duckduckgo, the Amazon private search engine. It doesn't play well with security addons. Funny how software and addons that block trackers, ads, fingerprinting, etc. seem to interfere with Startpage. Pages don't load sometimes or load with errors, but disabling addons allows things to function normally. If I turn off all my adblockers, it works really well, almost as well as Google itself. Gotta wonder whats going on under the hood with Startpage.Developer response
posted 2 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. We do not collect or share personal data with anyone, including other divisions within System1.
This article contains 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
And 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
Lastly, in regards to privacy add-ons, we generally find performance and functionality holds up pretty well with a host of different add-ons. If you are experiencing an issue with one or more of them, feel free to contact us at support@startpage.com. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13706273, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ABDELKADER ABBADI, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17765722, 2 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by KDV, 2 years agovery unfortunately, now their service and web site is down.
it was a really cool project with great prospects and promises...
R.I.P, StartpageDeveloper response
posted 2 years agoSorry you experienced an outage. We aren’t aware of any site downtime and no one else has reported any. It would be helpful for us to know what you saw, and when, so if you would be willing, contact us at support@startpage.com and let us know what your experience was. Thanks for caring about privacy! - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15179677, 2 years agoI will never need Google again and this search engine is wayyy more up to date than the duck. Finally, real competition. It's perfect.
Developer response
posted 2 years agoWe’re glad you’re enjoying using Startpage! Thanks for caring about privacy. - Rated 5 out of 5by 天灭中共退党团队保平安, 2 years ago