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

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[–] Brad@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] jo3jo3@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

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

[–] drwho@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Everything needs money to run.

[–] Vexz@kbin.social 1 points 1 year 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 1 year 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