Startpage Privacy Protection Startpage Privacy Protection

Search Tools
Version: 1.1.5
Last Update: 2022-11-03

Overview

Startpage Privacy Protection is a Chrome extension developed by Startpage.com. According to the data from Chrome web store, current version of Startpage Privacy Protection is 1.1.5, updated on 2022-11-03.
100,000+ users have installed this extension. 45 users have rated this extension with an average rating of .
developer website: startpage.com

The Startpage Privacy Protection extension provides private search and online data protection.

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]

Rating

45 ratings

Total Installs

100,000+

Information

Last Update

2022-11-03

Current Version

1.1.5

Size

4.03MiB

Author

Startpage.com

Website

startpage.com

Category

Search Tools

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avatar Dinnu G
2022-03-19

best

avatar Charles Staggs
2022-03-13

How do I get control of default search engine selection back once I've uninstalled the extension?

avatar Cheeky Jinx
2022-03-09

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"

avatar Radek Raczkowski
2022-03-03

Excuse me??? Why are you forcing your search engine?

avatar Radek Raczkowski
2022-03-03

TRASH. Changes your search engine WITHOUT ASKING AND DOESN'T LET YOU CHANGE IT BACK.