Risposta di Startpage
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pubblicato il 6 anni fa10/10/2019
IMPORTANT UPDATE ON PERMISSION REQUEST REMOVAL
Over the last few days, Startpage has received valuable feedback regarding our recent extension update and valid concerns around our request to view browser tabs. We realize that users understandably would prefer not to allow such permissions. As privacy advocates committed to serving our community, the team made it our highest priority to address this issue.
Effective immediately our extension will no longer request access to browser tabs for existing and new users. See version update here: https://addons.vaultpit.io/en-US/firefox/addon/startpage-privacy-search-engin/versions/
We appreciate all feedback and ask that you continue to openly communicate with us. Please feel free to reach out directly by email at [email protected], by Twitter @StartpageSearch, or on product review sites. We review these daily and look forward to hearing from you.
First Review Reply 10/06/2019
Your opinion and feedback are important to us. We do our best balancing ease of use for new users and maintaining legacy functionality for our current users. We understand your decision regarding the extension. One simple solution to continue to search in private with Startpage is to manually set it as your default search engine in Firefox (instructions below). Moreover, we’d like to apologize for not alerting you before the change. We’re sorry and have learned an important lesson. Please feel free to share more at [email protected].
Firefox Browser Default Search Engine Settings: https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/199/0/how-do-i-add-startpagecom-to-firefox-as-a-default-search-engine
IMPORTANT UPDATE ON PERMISSION REQUEST REMOVAL
Over the last few days, Startpage has received valuable feedback regarding our recent extension update and valid concerns around our request to view browser tabs. We realize that users understandably would prefer not to allow such permissions. As privacy advocates committed to serving our community, the team made it our highest priority to address this issue.
Effective immediately our extension will no longer request access to browser tabs for existing and new users. See version update here: https://addons.vaultpit.io/en-US/firefox/addon/startpage-privacy-search-engin/versions/
We appreciate all feedback and ask that you continue to openly communicate with us. Please feel free to reach out directly by email at [email protected], by Twitter @StartpageSearch, or on product review sites. We review these daily and look forward to hearing from you.
First Review Reply 10/06/2019
Your opinion and feedback are important to us. We do our best balancing ease of use for new users and maintaining legacy functionality for our current users. We understand your decision regarding the extension. One simple solution to continue to search in private with Startpage is to manually set it as your default search engine in Firefox (instructions below). Moreover, we’d like to apologize for not alerting you before the change. We’re sorry and have learned an important lesson. Please feel free to share more at [email protected].
Firefox Browser Default Search Engine Settings: https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/199/0/how-do-i-add-startpagecom-to-firefox-as-a-default-search-engine
733 recensioni
- Valutata 1 su 5di seeley, un giorno faCannot 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.
- Valutata 5 su 5di narancasta, 2 mesi fa
- Valutata 5 su 5di Utente Firefox 19145735, 2 mesi fa
- Valutata 5 su 5di Utente Firefox 19072892, 3 mesi fa
- Valutata 1 su 5di Utente Firefox 13508883, 3 mesi faI 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.Replica dello sviluppatore
pubblicato il 3 mesi faThanks for caring about privacy. Our extension follows normal installation steps and requires consent. Nothing is installed until you confirm using the standard Firefox dialogs. - Valutata 5 su 5di Utente Firefox 7035236, 3 mesi fa
- Valutata 5 su 5di Utente Firefox 19026513, 4 mesi fa
- Valutata 3 su 5di Faux Floras, 5 mesi faSimilar to Duckduckgo and Brave but does not give detailed AI answers like Deepfind
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pubblicato il 5 mesi faWe recently launched PrivateAI in our iOS and will be making it available on other platforms soon. - Valutata 2 su 5di Utente Firefox 14375826, 6 mesi faI 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 disutilityReplica dello sviluppatore
pubblicato il 5 mesi faIf you don't want to see that video at the top of the results list, disable Instant Answers in Settings. - Valutata 4 su 5di Utente Firefox 14724677, 6 mesi fa
- Valutata 5 su 5di Utente Firefox 14081674, 6 mesi fa
- Valutata 1 su 5di Buddy Hoover, 6 mesi faUsed to be great but "Uh-oh, there are no results for this search" for a month for every search input
- Valutata 4 su 5di icamefortheshow, 6 mesi faDefinitely 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.... - Valutata 1 su 5di c3Vja2l0ZHJ5, 6 mesi fa
- Valutata 1 su 5di Goooog le Morons, 6 mesi faeven 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! - Valutata 5 su 5di Utente Firefox 18692226, 7 mesi fa
- Valutata 5 su 5di Utente Firefox 18813619, 8 mesi fa