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Can anyone comment on the security of StartPage/IxQuick? As far as I know, they proxy Google results and avoid storing them in the browser via either a URL rew
by bordercases 8y ago
Can anyone comment on the security of StartPage/IxQuick?
As far as I know, they proxy Google results and avoid storing them in the browser via either a URL rewrite or a POST call. I find Google to return superior search data than DDG, particularly if it's not giving you recommended or personally ranked results (that alone makes it feel worthwhile to switch to SP/IxQuick). But it kind of feels like a free lunch.
- brentadamson 8y agoBeyond what you pointed out, it's hard to really know what's going on with something closed source. Disclosure: I run jivesearch.com (basically, an open source version of DDG). FYI, we've got an open issue on GitHub to add POST requests in addition to a proxy.