Funny. I primarily used Startpage for the last few years, but have had increasing problems with them providing bad/irrelevant results and frequently straight-up blocking my IP or requiring completion of a CAPTCHA before providing results. I switched to DDG, which has been working pretty well, and seems much better to me than it had when trying it a few years ago.
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Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 6 months agoTry Startpage. I have just started using it so I can’t tell you how it compares. I also need to look up who owns it. But I have been told it has the same privacy qualities of DDG.
24_at_the_withers@lemmy.world 6 months ago
frankgrimeszz@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I used to like it, but there was one incident where it fed me links to phishing sites. Like all the results were malicious. I suspect they had an internal breach or the session was somehow hijacked. That was years ago, but it made me wary. It’s usually okay.
Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Good to know I haven’t fully switched yet. I am definitely going to look more closely at its parents company and where it has servers.