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Startpage Acquired by System1, Privacy One Group – Still Safe?
- JohnFen 7y agoI don't consider them still safe. That isn't a knowledge claim, though -- I don't know if they're safe or not. The same is true for pretty much every other online service -- none of us have the means of verifying if a service is well-behaved or not. So, as a (poor) proxy for that, we have to go by reputation. Since going by reputation has very large error bars from the outset, any hint that a company may be compromised has to be taken very seriously. A service or company being owned by someone who makes their money by leveraging user data is a very large hint! I can't know if Startpage is OK or not, and in the absence of being able to determine that, the red flag of their ownership must carry a huge amount of weight. Therefore, I must consider Startpage as compromised and risky by default.
- lioeters 7y agoAs a happy user of DDG, I've never used Startpage - and after reading this article, will be recommending those around me to never use it either.