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Startpage by Startpage

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Review by Firefox user 16163856
by Firefox user 16163856, 5 years ago
721 reviews
  • by 18skeltor, 7 days ago
    "Server Not Found" and abysmal wait times. No, it's not my connection.
  • by Faux Floras, 17 days ago
    Similar to Duckduckgo and Brave but does not give detailed AI answers like Deepfind

    Developer response

    posted 13 days ago
    We recently launched PrivateAI in our iOS and will be making it available on other platforms soon.
  • by JM9373M, a month ago
    Was using this for a few months but found out recently about the fingerprinting with uBlock, so changed to Mojeek and DDG
  • by Firefox user 14375826, a month ago
    I had high hopes but it's just another feeding trough for the mouthbreathing contingent. The first result is always a BIG yt video, which seems to be impervious to UBO's element picker/zapper. this can be removed by blocking scripting but then startpage itself becomes nearly unusable without JS enabled. Image search basically breaks.

    The web continues it's death march towards increasing disutility

    Developer response

    posted a month ago
    If you don't want to see that video at the top of the results list, disable Instant Answers in Settings.
  • by Firefox user 14724677, a month ago
  • by Firefox user 14081674, 2 months ago
  • by Buddy Hoover, 2 months ago
    Used to be great but "Uh-oh, there are no results for this search" for a month for every search input
  • by icamefortheshow, 2 months ago
    Definitely better than DuckDuckGo, not sure why DDG gets baked into FF but I have to install an add-on for SP. Guessing DDG is paying to be included??

    However while Startpage is my "go first" search choice I end up at Google more than I would like [~30-40%] because SP is not there yet as far as the results go. SP is just not as good Google yet.

    Technical topics tend to be where SP struggles the most and the main problem is that Startpage is giving too much weight to older pages. Trying to trouble shoot software and most of the results are from ~2018 happens way too much. Changing "Any time" to "Past year" helps but that can be too short of a time period.

    The other main issue is search modifiers are inconsistent, for example a negative modifier Windows -Microsoft may or may not work and the same with using quotes as in "Windows for my house" is a coin flip if I am going to only get results with the exact match or not.

    Keep working on it as I would be happy if I never had to use Google again....
  • by c3Vja2l0ZHJ5, 2 months ago
  • by Goooog le Morons, 2 months ago
    even if web interface is available, any search for any query every time returns NO RESULTS.
    absolutely useless stuff for 'search engine' which simply stopped working and isn't being fixed for several months at least.
    but what a good thing it was before...
    R.I.P, Startpage!
  • by Firefox user 18692226, 2 months ago
  • by Firefox user 18813619, 3 months ago
  • by Davi, 4 months ago
  • by Dr. Katty Enriquez Mayo, 4 months ago
  • by Firefox user 17159731, 5 months ago
    well i like it my only problem dont know if it startpage or firefox but the reader icon and the star in the address bar needs a option to remove delete throw it in trash permanently because it is a annoying piece of garbage dont need it dont want anything ever in the address bar besides what i type in it !! everything i need is in the drop down menu all i need all i want everything else is useless and needs togo especially search bookmarks and search tabs can not stand that garbage !!! get rid of that stupid annoying garbage or at least give people option to not install that garbage it just pisses people off and and clutters my browser with more crap people including i dont want and usally is something i can do with my drop down menu anyway just like worthless widgets this idea is the biggest piece of garbage that does nothing but clutter up a computer with no way to remove that whole prorgram !!!! god how i wish there was a way to remove all wigets from a computer or i wish i knew enough to figure out how to remove wigets app from my computer

    Developer response

    posted 5 months ago
    This sounds like a Firefox UI issue, not a Startpage one. If you need help uninstalling our extension or anything Startpage related, get in touch at support@startpage.com. Hang in there.

    And here's where to leave feedback for Firefox to add us as a default option (meaning an extension would not be required to use Startpage as the default search engine in Firefox).

    https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/add-startpage-private-search-as-option/idi-p/72587
  • by C R TATE, 5 months ago
  • by Firefox user 18441491, 5 months ago
    Using google to search but remaining anonymous is ideal. But... only if you like the default search settings.
  • by Wallamander Hucklebee, 6 months ago
  • by Firefox user 16302000, 6 months ago
  • by 000000, 6 months ago
    Uses GET instead of POST for search
  • by Hollytryx, 7 months ago
  • by Coolio, 7 months ago
    Googles results with none of the BS. My search engine of choice and what I advice for people who want privacy!
  • by Firefox user 17848870, 8 months ago
  • by Nerthazul, 9 months ago
    Fantastic alternative to google. Has the same quality search results, but unlike google, it doesn't violate your privacy.
  • by Bout's Morgan, 9 months ago