Startpage
From Techrights
Startpage markets itself as a search engine that respects privacy. A closer look, however, reveals that to be a blatant lie. We covered the subject and explored the facts in the articles below.
2020
- Confirmation: System1/Startpage Offered Pay to People Who Pushed for (Re)Listing in Privacy Directories
- Startpage/System1 Almost Definitely Pay for People to Lie About Their Surveillance
- StartPage (System1) Found New Spin Allies. Some Have Been Offered StartPage Jobs. Some Might Already be Working for StartPage in Secret.
2019
- Fuzzy Logic and Personal Attacks: How Startpage Guards Its Image After Becoming a Surveillance Company
- Startpage and System1: Lying for Almost a Year and Nowadays Making Things Personal/Ad Hominem (Shooting the Messengers)
- Startpage CEO Robert Beens in 'Damage Control' Mode, Trying to Get Startpage Relisted After Selling to a Massive Surveillance Company
- Startpage Looks Like It’s AstroTurfing — With Payments to Twitter — in Order to Boost the False Perception of ‘Privacy’
- Startpage is Not Denying Its Betrayal of Privacy, It is Just Being Evasive
- No, Startpage is Not Dutch Anymore
- Startpage Has Been Delisted, But it Ought to be Blacklisted
- Privacy-Centric Services and Even Drupal/Acquia Defect to the Camp of Mass Surveillance
- Startpage Shows Sheer Hypocrisy After Selling Out and Betraying Privacy (Corrected)
- System1 (Company Behind Startpage, Dogpile, WebCrawler, MetaCrawler and More) Calls Surveillance “Privacy”
- ‘Dutch’ Startpage Gets a Lot of Traffic Channeled Through/From Small Shop (“Google Premier Partner”) in Scotland
- Startpage, Dogpile, WebCrawler, MetaCrawler and Maybe Many Others Send Data to a Surveillance Company Subsidised by the Goldman Sachs-Connected Court Square Capital Partners
- Age of Digital Deception: Startpage, Mozilla and the Linux Foundation Are Enemies of Your Privacy
- Startpage and System1 Abuse Your Privacy Under the Guise of ‘Privacy One Group’
