●●● From Techrights

Startpage markets itself as a search engine that respects privacy. A closer look, however, reveals that to be a blatant lie. We covered the subject and explored the facts in the articles below.

●● 2020

Confirmation: System1/Startpage Offered Pay to People Who Pushed for (Re)Listing in Privacy Directories
Startpage/System1 Almost Definitely Pay for People to Lie About Their Surveillance
StartPage (System1) Found New Spin Allies. Some Have Been Offered StartPage Jobs. Some Might Already be Working for StartPage in Secret.

●● 2019

Fuzzy Logic and Personal Attacks: How Startpage Guards Its Image After Becoming a Surveillance Company
Startpage and System1: Lying for Almost a Year and Nowadays Making Things Personal/Ad Hominem (Shooting the Messengers)
Startpage CEO Robert Beens in 'Damage Control' Mode, Trying to Get Startpage Relisted After Selling to a Massive Surveillance Company
Startpage Looks Like It’s AstroTurfing — With Payments to Twitter — in Order to Boost the False Perception of ‘Privacy’
Startpage is Not Denying Its Betrayal of Privacy, It is Just Being Evasive
No, Startpage is Not Dutch Anymore
Startpage Has Been Delisted, But it Ought to be Blacklisted
Privacy-Centric Services and Even Drupal/Acquia Defect to the Camp of Mass Surveillance
Startpage Shows Sheer Hypocrisy After Selling Out and Betraying Privacy (Corrected)
System1 (Company Behind Startpage, Dogpile, WebCrawler, MetaCrawler and More) Calls Surveillance “Privacy”
‘Dutch’ Startpage Gets a Lot of Traffic Channeled Through/From Small Shop (“Google Premier Partner”) in Scotland
Startpage, Dogpile, WebCrawler, MetaCrawler and Maybe Many Others Send Data to a Surveillance Company Subsidised by the Goldman Sachs-Connected Court Square Capital Partners
Age of Digital Deception: Startpage, Mozilla and the Linux Foundation Are Enemies of Your Privacy
Startpage and System1 Abuse Your Privacy Under the Guise of ‘Privacy One Group’

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