720 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17601624, 2 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 16253942, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ThunderingRoar, 3 years agoSeems like the bright white flashbangs have been fixed, thanks
- Rated 5 out of 5by Bernhard, 3 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by SuperFly, 3 years agoBecome a Captcha-Pro with Startpage. Simply fill in a timed, multiple choice categorical questionnaire web-page detailing your specific VPN, ad-blocker or content blocker, device-identity changer, whether connected to TOR and other useful IDENTITY and TRACKING details - then its Captcha time. Time run out before you could finish the form and captcha? SURPRISE! Every time you use Startpage you fill out the questionable form and solve at least 1 captcha.
Developer response
posted 2 years agoUnfortunately, Startpage is subjected to automated abuse and scraping on a daily basis, which can be very costly financially and in terms of system performance; a lot of that traffic originates on VPNs and TOR. 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.
If you have been incorrectly blocked, please don’t hesitate to contact us at support@startpage.com. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17453176, 3 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15142503, 3 years agoYo tenía la extensión en español, pero de repente esta desapareció de mi navegador y al reinstalar la extensión solo me pone la versión en inglés, quiero de vuelta el startpage en español.
Developer response
posted 2 years agoNosotros solo proporcionamos Startpage Privacy Protection en Ingles y Alemán. Puede ser que hay otro problema con tu configuración o que instalo otra extensión. Por favor contacts nuestro equipo de apoyo a support@startpage.com y te podemos ayudar con las configuraciones para que tengas acceso a Startpage en Español. - Rated 5 out of 5by Manaplayer, 3 years agoI use it everywhere as default search engine - Super thing!
But one thing about the addon: On the site of Startpage you can configure your custom style of the page. Because i'm not using cookies, i need to start on the custom url. This addon don't have a option to change it?Developer response
posted 2 years agoThanks for choosing Startpage! Combining the Settings URL with the add-on sounds like a cool new feature idea. We’ll share with our Product team.
Thanks for caring about privacy! - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17441005, 3 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 17422100, 3 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by halfAsleep0451, 3 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by folgoris, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Steppenwolf1999, 3 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Damien Alleyne, 3 years agoIt works great. However, it is missing a very important feature: search suggestions. The add-on hasn't been updated in 2 years, so it seems we'll never get this feature. One will have to create this feature on the Mycroft Project.
Developer response
posted 2 years agoThanks for choosing Startpage! Search suggestions are available as part of our our other extension:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/startpage-privacy-protection/.
We might consider adding support for suggestions here, too, but our team is currently focused on major upgrades to our search experience. Thanks for the suggestion and for carving about privacy! - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17299245, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ysan, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15153131, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13095681, 3 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by aths, 3 years agoIt seriously shows ads first in the search results. I always need to scroll past the ads to reach the actual results. It refuses to show the search results & gets broken, when ads-block or similar extensions like no-script are in action. Quite unexpected behavior considering the name "private search engine".
Developer response
posted 2 years agoThanks for trying Startpage. Ads are how we are able to provide a free private service. It might interest you to know that the team has been hard at work overhauling and improving the search experience. Among those improvements launching this month will be a reduced-ad experience on mobile.
From time to time, we do test the performance of our search results with extensions like the ones you mention and we haven’t found any major issues. In responding to your comment, we tested with several, including NoScript, and were able to pull up results just fine. With NoScript, the menus above the results disappeared, but that is to be expected unless you add us as a trusted domain. If you have any additional questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us at support@startpage.com.
Thanks for caring about privacy! - Rated 5 out of 5by Christopher Rebecca Lee Tate, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Default, 3 years agoResults are as great as Google's. Themes are awesome, search is reasonably fast (I've seen many users complain about results loading speed, but if you aren't a crybaby counting millisecond by millisecond you will agree it is fast). Litterally store no cookies but the one for settings and has a great privacy policy. Lastly, based in Europe. I would recommend anyone to use this over google or any other search engine.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12334793, 3 years agoso much better than duckduckgo. I am using Startpage for many years now and Startpage always shows relevant results where duckduck does not.