Clever! Hadn’t thought of StopPage 🙂

Startpage is subjected to automated abuse and scraping on a daily basis, which can be very costly financially and in terms of system performance. 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.

At the time of your review, some users were experiencing a brief outage, a matter we quickly resolved. Please let us know if you continue to experience any issues. We hope you’ll choose to stick with Startpage. And if this works for you, maybe you would be open to reconsidering your rating.

Thanks for caring about privacy!

In January 2019, Startpage became a part of System1 and continues to be headquartered in the Netherlands. As promised, we have kept all our commitments never to change our privacy practices as well as adding more helpful private search features.

Please read this support article for a detailed explanation on the various contractual privacy protections we’ve put in place as a System1 company: https://support.startpage.com/hc/en-us/articles/5194985436948

In an effort to provide further transparency we make available our private search data flow,
detailing how personal data is protected: https://support.startpage.com/hc/en-us/articles/4455570359188

Please contact us at support@startpage.com if you have further questions.