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The Startpage Privacy Protection extension provides private search and online data protection.
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Easy and secure privacy protection across the internet. With this privacy extension, you can automatically block trackers and cookies from websites you visit and ensure all your searches are in complete privacy. With just one click, you can seamlessly decrease the amount of personal data Big Tech and non-private search engines are collecting on you.
Startpage Privacy Protection is designed to give people control over what personal data is shared. You have the power to visibly monitor the privacy practices of each website you visit and can turn off and on your privacy and tracking settings.
This privacy extension provides the following private search engine and blocker features:
- Sets default search engine to startpage.com
- Ensures your search engine activities are private, not saved, sold or used for profiling.
- Blocks trackers and cookies
- Stops trackers from being placed on search activities by advertisers and third parties
- Reports website privacy scoring
- Evaluates and calculates a privacy rating based on each site’s privacy.
- Overrides social media tracking
- Replaces social media, video, and music site tracking defaults with “click-to-activate” privacy options.
- Sends global privacy control signal
- Sends visited sites a signal with your privacy preferences.
- Detect canvas-based fingerprinting, and blocks third party domains that use it. Use Startpage Anonymous View for enhanced fingerprinting protection.
- Detects and blocks third party sites using special scripts to collect information about you
- Ability to quickly exit any page by hitting `esc` key four times
Learn why you should start your search with Startpage Privacy Protection:
Homepage: www.startpage.com
Source Code: https://www.startpage.com/sp/cdn/sourcecode/privacy-search-1.1.1.zip
Anonymous View: https://www.startpage.com/en/anonymous-view/
Privacy, Please! Blog: https://www.startpage.com/privacy-please/
Startpage In the News: https://www.startpage.com/privacy-please/press/
About us: https://www.startpage.com/en/about-us
Privacy Policy: https://www.startpage.com/en/privacy-policy
EULA: https://www.startpage.com/en/eula
Support: https://support.startpage.com/
Contact: [email protected]
Latest reviews
- (2023-08-17) Jackson Beale: Even after uninstalling the extension, my default start page is set to startpage.com and I can't figure out how to remove it. I can see that others have made this observation, and that there's chatter online that the service is not what it says it is. I would suggest that they respond to this comment and help me remove it so as to improve their reputation.
- (2023-06-07) Daniel “DC” Calverley: Thank you!
- (2022-09-20) Tommy: Would have been a 5 star review, however they have gone completely scummy by forcing your new tab window to be startpage with no way of disabling it in the extension settings. Absolutely unacceptable. Privacy badger does not change your browser settings like that, and does the exact same thing. Maybe I can revisit this if they change it, but until then 1 star it is.
- (2022-09-08) The Critic: it blocks cookies. and prevent from tracking.
- (2022-09-03) daniels 0056: It's really good for disabling trackers from what it reports in its statistics, I don't know how to verify that it actually blocks trackers. The only annoying thing is that it forces omnibox searches to startpage, while I want to keep Google. Startpage search results are often irrelevant and not able to find what I'm looking for, also Startpage always uses the first 3-4 positions for placed ads, which is extremely annoying. I will not be continuing using this plugin.
- (2022-08-15) XSHAS MSSSGM: Startpage Privatsphäre-Schutz macht auch den Brave Broswer noch viel Sicherer und auch extrem viel schneller, diese Erweiterung ist ein muss für Brave und für alle anderen Broswer.
- (2022-06-01) Mark Palmos: Seems nice, but it is not a Start - Page! ??
- (2022-05-18) Jasper Anders: Works like a charm!
- (2022-03-19) Dinnu G: best
- (2022-03-13) Charles Staggs: How do I get control of default search engine selection back once I've uninstalled the extension?
- (2022-03-09) Cheeky Jinx: The search provider function for this needs work, it sends your search query as a GET string rather than a more secure POST. Anyone looking at your traffic will see what you have searched for. You can work around this by setting your search provider to the javascript below (assuming this site displays it properly), this script will submit your search as POST data and use a dark mode settings string. You can use your own personalization settings if you'd like by changing the values: data:text/html,<body style="background-color:rgb(15,18,25);" onload="document.body.firstChild.submit()"><form action="https://www.startpage.com/sp/search" id="search" method="post" ><input type="hidden" id="q" name="query" value="%s" action="https://www.startpage.com/sp/search"><input type="hidden" name="prfe" value="70ad54f0b62155d83c19c0ab76afa30859617b54b83f62efc458472a21e302e925d8485d87586ce7673bb13edcbf7052bb15e16cf656534ca18aba5b31970ae1da77a8afddbc75086cfdd6ae5866">
- (2022-03-03) Wataha Zawóz: Forces their search engine without asking first and blocks you from changing this
- (2022-03-03) Wataha Zawoz: Forces their search engine without asking first and blocks you from changing this
- (2022-03-03) Radek Raczkowski: Excuse me??? Why are you forcing your search engine?
- (2022-03-03) k0 rr: TRASH. Changes your search engine WITHOUT ASKING AND DOESN'T LET YOU CHANGE IT BACK
- (2022-03-03) K0 RR: TRASH. Changes your search engine WITHOUT ASKING AND DOESN'T LET YOU CHANGE IT BACK
- (2022-03-03) Radek Raczkowski: TRASH. Changes your search engine WITHOUT ASKING AND DOESN'T LET YOU CHANGE IT BACK.
- (2022-02-28) Logan Taylor Giraldo Gonza: fenomenal team startpage ya era tiempo que actualizen la extensiomn ya que estaba muy abandonada y ahora esta super mejorada , sigan asi esta extension y su buscador simplemente fenomenal , espero sigan asi y esten siempre actualizandose y darnos a nosotros los usuarios seguridad
- (2022-02-28) abraham 2: a question how do you switch countries
- (2022-02-11) KHALDI Abdel-Rezak: Cette extension bloque tout sans exception ! Elle bloque même virustotal.com! Je désinstalle car je n'aime les blocages. Pour le reste c'est vrai qu'elle bloque tous les traqueurs, les pubs et pop-ups de tous les sites: un blocage rigoureux et sans merci!
- (2022-02-09) Sergey Twersky: Unfortunately does not block (or mask) fingerprints via canvas, webgl, fonts, audio, etc.
- (2022-02-07) Duncan Ford: This extension works great and I love the privacy score. I was surprised to see how many trackers are on the sites that I use most often.
- (2022-02-05) Wouter: Absolutley love this extension. It's so clear what it's doing and how to enable and disable certain options. There is no setback in when surfing iy's only adding pretection and info about your websites.
- (2022-02-04) Julian Prodromos: Cool reports with privacy scores. I was terrified with the number of trackers and cookies blocked. After using this extension, the internet feels like a safe place again.
- (2022-02-04) Sophie Wright: Love the 1-5 color coded ratings! Opens your eyes to how aggressive the tracking is on some of my frequently visited sites. Also enables me to utilize Chrome with a simple add on, vs using another browser to protect my privacy.
- (2022-02-03) Lisa Jones: Easy install. Great protection from online scammers.
- (2022-02-03) Louis Wilbrink: Great for getting an idea of how much tracking each site is applying on you. Super simple and intuitive interface as well.
- (2022-02-03) Otis Echaddini: Easy to use and intuitive!
- (2022-01-27) Kevin Kahl: Great extension, however, it forces your browser search engine to be StartPage. So the extension is actually doing TWO things, one of which you were already able to do by yourself via the browser's settings mechanism. Now, this extension actually PREVENTS you from switching to an alternate search engine while still enjoying the benefits of web site scoring and tracking prevention. I was already using StartPage as my search, but have DuckDuckGo as my search engine selection so I can use all of it's ! shortcuts (e.g. !sp <search term> to go to StartPage, !gh to go to GitHub, !w <search> to go to Wikipedia, etc.). This extension stops me from doing that. Please separate these functions, StartPage, and let me pick my own search engine in the settings!
- (2022-01-21) Danton Medrado: The best, ever. Long live Startpage!
- (2022-01-19) Kieran Colfer: Does what it says - Blocks trackers. Startpage FTW!
- (2022-01-17) ABHISHEK: I very much like whole Startpage thing. Starting from just giving a privacy search feature to giving anonymous view feature and now privacy protection through extension. That's great. Keep it up!!!
- (2022-01-14) George Schmalz: Always feel like somebody's is watching you? Well, you'll know once you install this extension!! I'm not one to review products but this really impressed me enough to write something. It's easy to use and the privacy score is noted directly in the browser so I know immediately how safe the website is when visiting it!
- (2022-01-12) Mary Evans: Love to see how many trackers and cookies are getting blocked on various sites I visit. The privacy report feature that shows the total amount blocked is super cool. I definitely feel a lot safer browsing the web with this installed!
- (2022-01-11) Max Mojo: Sehr empfehlenswert! Schon nach wenigen Nutzungen erkennt man, wie viele Cookies und Tracker auf Websites lauern, die man tagtäglich benutzt. Das ist echt gruselig. Bin froh, dass ich die Erweiterung installiert habe und so sicherer im Internet surfen kann.
- (2022-01-10) Terence Westphal: Recommend. My favorite privacy protection extension for Chrome.
- (2022-01-10) Nadine Penk: Kannte Startpage schon länger und nutze die Suchmaschine sehr häufig. Die neue Erweiterung ist super und leicht zu installieren. Sie stört nicht beim Surfen, die Seiten funktionieren vollständig. Es wird angezeigt, wie datenschutzfreundlich eine Webseite ist. Kann ich empfehlen!
- (2022-01-05) Daniel Russell: Love that it automatically changes my default search engine to Startpage AND helps me block ads and tracking across the web. I feel a lot safer online using it. Plus i like having startpage as my default search engine because it's much simpler and no-nonsense. After using it for the past few days, I realized that a lotta the sites I was visiting got a low privacy score...yikes!
- (2022-01-05) Edward Van Breene: Recommend this for easy data protection. This extension builds on Privacy Badger's cookie and tracker blocking technology. The interface is clean and easy-to-use as well as lets me decide what level of protection I want for any website.
- (2022-01-05) Regina Phalange: Easy to use and makes me feel much safer!
- (2022-01-05) Patty Guadalajara: Great extension if you want to protect your privacy! - Sets Startpage as your default search engine - Blocks cookies and trackers - Gives you a privacy report
- (2022-01-04) Charlie Sting: Easy to understand privacy score by site and like the option to select which sites to block. First time using a private search engine and like the quality of the search results.