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On Friday, 17 June 2022 12:19:58 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> On Friday, 17 June 2022 09:55:17 BST Michael wrote: |
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> > Is StartPage to be trusted, anymore than all the rest mass surveillance |
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> > corporates? |
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> I don't know; is that what they do? Have you looked at https:// |
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> eu.startpage.com/ ? |
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They were bought out by a US advertising company 3 years ago and for more than |
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a decade have not had had an independent audit on the way data privacy is |
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handled. Statements provided by the CEO attempting to assuage users' |
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nervousness on the new ownership structure and its impact on privacy, appear |
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to be an exercise in doublethink: |
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https://old.reddit.com/r/StartpageSearch/comments/djshn3/ |
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hello_reddit_startpage_mod_team/ |
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http://techrights.org/2019/11/04/startpage-dogpile-webcrawler-metacrawler/ |
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I'm not saying they're any worse than all the other contenders in this space, |
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but I do wonder if there is such a think as a search engine which respects |
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users' privacy (... asking for a friend). |
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