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Startpage Privacy Concerns 2019

The acquisition of Startpage by System1 and its implications on user privacy

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Jan 13, 2026
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How do Startpage's ownership and corporate ties affect its privacy guarantees?

Startpage’s privacy guarantees rest on technical design (no logging, anonymizing proxies, and an "Anonymous View" feature) and on legal protections from being headquartered in the Netherlands under EU...

Jan 16, 2026
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How does Startpage anonymize Google queries and what are the privacy tradeoffs after its System1 acquisition?

Startpage stands between users and Google: it strips identifying metadata from queries and forwards anonymized requests to Google, then returns results without building profiles . The 2019 majority in...