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submitted 10 months ago by Brad@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

Heard some sketchy stuff about duckduckgo recently, found out about start page.many users?

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[-] Vexz@kbin.social 81 points 10 months ago

Startpage was bought by an advertising company. I suggest to not bother with that search engine anymore.

[-] Brad@lemm.ee 12 points 10 months ago

Damn! Why do the good die young? Thanks for sharing, I'll give it a miss.

[-] jo3jo3@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

It wasn't young, it's been around a long time

[-] drwho@beehaw.org 5 points 10 months ago

Everything needs money to run.

[-] Vexz@kbin.social 0 points 10 months ago

That's true but we're here at privacy@lemmy.ml so people here only care about the privacy aspect and not how companies finance their services. If you still wanna use Startpage and risk your privacy then go for it.

[-] Lime66@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

It's fine, start page still has control over their search engine, system 1 just takes some profit. The privacy policy is also distinctly different to the ad tech company

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