In 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.

Sorry 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!

We’re glad you’re enjoying using Startpage! Thanks for caring about privacy.

Vielen Dank für Ihr positives Feedback. Wir werden uns weiterhin für Ihr Recht auf Datenschutz einsetzen!

Es freut uns, dass Ihnen den Erweiterung gefällt. Die Nutzung unserer Erweiterung ist definitiv nach wie vor sicher! Die Erweiterung ist die einfachste Art und Weise, Startpage als Standardsuchmaschine festzulegen und direkt in der Adressleiste Ihres Browsers zu suchen. In letzter Zeit haben wir viel Zeit in die Startpage Privatsphäreschutz-Erweiterung gesteckt. Diese Erweiterung enthält zusätzliche Funktionen wie Trackerblocking und einen Datenschutzreport für jede aufgerufene Webseite.

Clever! Hadn’t thought of StopPage 🙂

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 will set off one of our rules and be asked to verify they are not a bot.

At the time of your review, some users were experiencing a brief outage, a matter we quickly resolved. Please let us know if you continue to experience any issues. We hope you’ll choose to stick with Startpage. And if this works for you, maybe you would be open to reconsidering your rating.

Thanks for caring about privacy!