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title: Startpage
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type: Recommendation
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logo: /assets/img/search-engines/startpage.svg
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description: |
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**Startpage** is a search engine that provides Google search results. It is a very convenient way to get Google search results without experiencing dark patterns such as difficult captchas or being refused access because you used a [VPN](/providers/vpn) or [Tor](https://www.torproject.org/download/).
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#### Notes
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Startpage's majority shareholder is System1 who is an adtech company. We don't think that is an issue as they have their own Privacy Policy.
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The Privacy Guides team reached out to Startpage [back in 2020](https://web.archive.org/web/20210118031008/https://blog.privacytools.io/relisting-startpage/) for clarification and was satisfied by the answers we received.
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Startpage is based in the <span class="flag-icon flag-icon-nl"></span> Netherlands.
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According to their [Privacy Policy](https://www.startpage.com/en/privacy-policy/), they only log details such as: operating system, type of browser and language. They do not log your IP address, search queries or other identifying information.
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Startpage proxies Google Search so Google does have access to your search queries.
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website: 'https://www.startpage.com'
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privacy_policy: 'https://www.startpage.com/en/privacy-policy'
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