Review by Firefox user 14226340
694 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16779275, 3 minutes ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ronnie C, 4 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Kaqxar, 4 days agoThe extension works, but the site itself is trainwreck. It recurringly thinks I am a bot, asks some questions, I need to solve a captcha, then it still denies all services. So basically there is no point in using this extension, because the service behind it is unreliable.
Do not use it, there are other, more competent and privacy respecting search engines.Developer response
posted 16 hours agoSorry you haven't had a great experience using our service. Our service is generally very reliable. We are subjected to automated abuse and scraping on a daily basis, which can be very costly financially and in terms of system performance. Accordingly, strong anti-abuse measures are a necessity, and we continually work hard to improve them. False positives are occasionally a reality: in some instances, normal users will set off one or more of our rules and be asked to verify they are not a bot.
Please don’t hesitate to contact us at support@startpage.com if there is anything further you wish to discuss. - Rated 2 out of 5by p3whyte, 6 days agoIt worked for a couple of days. I liked it. The worst part was no way to completely turn off "Safe Search". But after a couple of days no matter what I searched for ALL search results came back with a "503 error" blank page. Uninstalled; might try again later...
Developer response
posted 6 days agoThanks for caring about privacy. We're sorry you experienced an issue with our add-on. If you decide to re-install and are still experiencing any issues, please contact us at support@startpage.com. - Rated 2 out of 5by Sketch56, 12 days agoStartpage, why in sin did you not add an '@' for your Search Shortcuts keyword? It's such a dumb decision that makes it harder to search for details about Startpage, and I already have it as my default search engine so it's redundant.
For those who may ask "why not just change the keyword?" For some ungodly reason, it doesn't remove the default keyword when you set a new keyword.Developer response
posted 9 days agoIt's a great suggestion and will be included in a future version. - Rated 4 out of 5by Carlisle Mike Wick, 17 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Stanislav Pastukhou, a month ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 18359878, 2 months ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Vadda41, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13533437, 4 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by iiro, 4 months agoOn Startpage you could or can see ads from Nord. At the same time, Nord promotes Startpage as the best search engine. However, in my opinion, Nord is anything but serious and does not really care about privacy.
In my opinion, Startpage has proven that the privacy of its users is not its top priority and I can only advise against using their services or add-ons.Developer response
posted 4 months agoWe have seen and heard some of the criticism about Nord and also know that many companies receive criticism. We believe that Nord ultimately wants to protect user privacy and their business depends on it. NordVPN has a large privacy-aware community and we think this partnership is beneficial for both companies and will help raise awareness about private search with Startpage.
As for our commitment to our users' privacy, our privacy infrastructure is unmatched in search, and our privacy policy has not changed since we were founded. - Rated 5 out of 5by Dingo, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ChibiAnhTu, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14998089, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by math, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15351442, 5 months agoIch benutze Startpage seit Jahren. Es war aber plötzlich von Firefox verschwunden. Ich hole es wieder, weil es diskreter ist und jede neuoffene Seite im eigenen Tab erscheint.
Developer response
posted 5 months agoVielen Dank für Ihr positives Feedback. Wir freuen uns, dass Sie mit Startpage zufrieden sind. Wenn Sie Fragen haben oder Hilfe brauchen, wenden Sie sich gerne per E-Mail an unser Support Team: support@startpage.com - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 18116620, 6 months agoCan we get a verbatim option? come on.... What good is privacy if we can't find anything to begin with? Quotations, plus symbols, and ampersands are all ignored, the only operator that works is the minus operator
Edit:
Well, some work, as for it working the same as bing that would be correct, because they don't work on bing either. As for google, in combination with verbatim mode they actually do work. On startpage it depends, the site: filetype: and intitle: operators work, as does the - operator, but the "" and + operators, which are essentially verbatim operators, are generally ignored entirely, which is extremely annoying tbhDeveloper response
posted 6 months agoAdvanced searches on Startpage, including exact match, perform the same as on Google and Bing, which is to say that they work, but are not applied in 100% of searches. More information can be found here:
https://support.startpage.com/hc/en-us/articles/4521473758228-Advanced-Search-on-Startpage
If you wish to discuss anything further, feel free to reach out at support@startpage.com. Thanks for caring about privacy. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18073645, 6 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18073776, 7 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17699355, 7 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17830023, 7 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 16526017, 7 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18102524, 7 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Chrisian Pütz, 7 months ago