Review by 1nfered-Data
Rated 2 out of 5
by 1nfered-Data, 2 years 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 2 years 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 [email protected] to discuss other potential workarounds.
https://support.startpage.com/hc/en-us/articles/4616244515476
Thanks for caring about privacy. Feel free to contact us at [email protected] to discuss other potential workarounds.
733 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by seeley, 2 days agoCannot search from the address bar without my ISP seeing what I'm searching. Please keep the search terms OUT OF THE ADDRESS BAR when searching from the address bar with Startpage. Is there a way to manually configure a Startpage search string so the search terms do not populate the address bar- when searching from the address bar with Startpage? Thanks.
- Rated 5 out of 5by narancasta, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19145735, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Love, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19072892, 3 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13508883, 3 months agoI went to the startpage site because duckduckgo was having issues briefly, and I added the search add-on, the type that you used to get on mycroft, in case I ran into trouble like that again. When I did this, it surreptitiously went ahead and installed this full browser extension as well. The process was either without my consent, or made to look like I was consenting to the thing I actually wanted.
Go figure, sketchy behavior by the company that used to use Alex Jones as a poster boy. I'm ticking with Duckduckgo, but I was alwas going to. This just confirmed my feelings about Startpage.Developer response
posted 3 months agoThanks for caring about privacy. Our extension follows normal installation steps and requires consent. Nothing is installed until you confirm using the standard Firefox dialogs. - Rated 4 out of 5by LuccaLuke, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 7035236, 3 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Ariel, 4 months agoVery handy search engine but startpage.com is not available in China /(ㄒoㄒ)/~
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19026513, 4 months ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by 18skeltor, 5 months ago"Server Not Found" and abysmal wait times. No, it's not my connection.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Faux Floras, 5 months agoSimilar to Duckduckgo and Brave but does not give detailed AI answers like Deepfind
Developer response
posted 5 months agoWe recently launched PrivateAI in our iOS and will be making it available on other platforms soon. - Rated 2 out of 5by JM9373M, 5 months agoWas using this for a few months but found out recently about the fingerprinting with uBlock, so changed to Mojeek and DDG
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 14375826, 6 months agoI 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 disutilityDeveloper response
posted 5 months agoIf you don't want to see that video at the top of the results list, disable Instant Answers in Settings. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14724677, 6 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14081674, 6 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Buddy Hoover, 6 months agoUsed to be great but "Uh-oh, there are no results for this search" for a month for every search input
- Rated 4 out of 5by icamefortheshow, 6 months agoDefinitely 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.... - Rated 1 out of 5by c3Vja2l0ZHJ5, 6 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Goooog le Morons, 6 months agoeven 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! - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18692226, 7 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18813619, 8 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Davi, 8 months ago