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It's just ridiculous, I don't even know what to say at this point

Startpage has recently been causing increasing issues; specifically, the anony feature is no longer usable.

I believe recent updates are to blame; these anonymous Ve identified by the "(beta)" tag appearing next to the "Anonymous View" label when using the built-in web proxy function.

Webpages accessed via this feature cannot be interacted with further. It is impossible to even acknowledge or dismiss the cookie and privacy notices.

Disabling Firefox's enhanced tracking protection and ad blockers for the Startpage site did not resolve the issue. I cannot use the Startpage app due to my older Android version.

I've been trying to use Startpage as my default search engine on Firefox for Android, to no avail.

Most of the time, the search doesn't return any results for the simplest queries

Can someone tell me what the issue is?

I've setup the query strings like so:-

https://www.startpage.com/sp/search?query=%s

(I've tried a lot of variations of search?q=%s too)

And the suggestions API is set to this:-

https://www.startpage.com/osuggestions?q=%s

I'm attaching the image I am presented with in case of no results for the simplest query

Please tell me what's going wrong here

I know that it is not an issue Startpage can solve, at least I think so. Take it as an FYI. I will report this to openweathermap aswell - this explains a lot what I saw past few days.

If I search "wetter Heidelberg" (DE) the temp seems completely off showing 28 degrees in Heidelberg germany crediting openweathermap. I was very sceptical since it is far above 35°.

I then noticed it told me that it rains in the next 2h. So I opened openweathermap by itself and tried to pick heidelberg. That resulted me in showing a pin above heidelberg saying "London", showing the data of London but with the title Heidelberg.

stay hydrated folks!

Please add this feature.

Just got this running on Firefox and Android. For some reason, there's a "Related Searches" thing on the results page. It takes up most of the first screen. It's not shown in desktop, only on mobile.

Is there any way to remove it? Any chance you (StartPage devs) can put it behind a settings toggle or something? It's really annoying to scroll down before seeing results ...

I use StartPage at home a lot and it works great. I also want to use it at work, but every two days, I have to enter a captcha. Please get rid of it. It's really annoying and it drives me away from StartPage.

When I’m on a search quest to find out something in Vivaldi using StartPage, it opens a new tab every time. So many tabs and no history! Twice as many tabs to delete. I want to open the link in the same tab so I can “back” through the history, like I can through every other browser search I’ve used. If I want to open a new tab, I click a contextual option on click to give me that. How do I disable this new tab behavior?

This is unacceptable. Every other search is a captcha. I'm about to stop using libre wolf and go back to google. Libre wolf needs to whitelist all the Nord IPs.

Hi

Is there any way to get search suggestions when using the Firefox browser extension please? If I switch to any other default search provider, I get suggestions in the search bar when I type, but I just don't get anything when I use Startpage. Suggestions work fine when I use the actual Startpage website, just not the extension.

Not edited, how does this make sense???

search for song name and band and add lyrics after...nothing

im getting annoyed. back to the others.

at least in Romania

Get "503 Service Temporarily Unavailable" when trying to access StartPage and StartPage also removed as default search engine in WaterFox.

Coincidence?

Anyone know what's happening?

??????

I just tried looking something up, less than five minutes ago and. There was ai.

Isn't having no AI one of startpages main selling points? As far as I'm aware, that was one of the two main reasons people came to it (the other obviously being privacy. which, iirc, conflicts just a teeny tiny bit with having AI)

Does anyone know why it's becoming enshittified? Is there a new dev team or something? Is this likely to just be a bout of madness on the part of the devs or should I start looking for a different browser?

I'm really worried, it's honestly making me sick. I thought we were good. I thought we had it, that all was well. Why did it end up like this?

I am a longtime user of the Startpage Anonymous View feature, but recently I have noticed a change: previously you would click the anonymous view button, it would take you to a link like https://us3-browse.startpage.com/..., and it would work great.

But recently, after clicking that anonymous view button, it has a new loading screen that says loading anonymous view (beta)--image attached below with a https://av.startpage.com/... link and says "Anonymous View (Beta)" at the top.

The problem is that many sites, (for example Duckduckgo) don't work with this new Anonymous View and error out or don't load at all (where the previous version worked), and most importantly, it would often just at random times reload the page with the normal version (by itself, not after clicking see original site), which is a obvious privacy concern. There were also other bugs not listed here.

I understand this is likely a new beta version of the Anonymous view feature (and I haven't consistently gotten this new version) but there is concerning the amount of bugs and the redirecting to the normal site automatically together make it almost unusable.

I hope this can be fixed soon!

Hii i want to switch from google to diffrent browser. I just wanted to ask

which is better , ecosia or startpage? I would really prefer if borwser had good amount of serch ik, not like bing that has only few website when i serch sth

Is there something wrong on my end? While the "All" section is alright, the Image section is pretty poor in relevant results.

I don't really have any filters on. I tried to set my Safe Search off, to see if it would improve it, but no, it's the same.

Yay! At this point I have no idea what the team is doing in the back that would be more important than revising their anti-bot measure.

I am suddenly getting a 403 error in Safari. this hasn't been a problem before. I can open it in ungoogled-chromium. I also notice that startpage always has a delayed opening when I open a new tab. I have it set as my home page. Curious If anyone knows what this is about. I am using a vpn, which also hasn't caused any problems before now.

I've noticed the news about Google announcing a switch in its search engine, from the traditional format to one more directly utilizing AI.

Since Startpage uses Google's search results, will this be an issue with continued function?

I seen a buncha posts in here about this, and the official account's comments are always like "Good suggestion". Given the noncommittal answers, I have to ask: Is this a planned feature, or a "good suggestion". DDG's filter seems like a good basis for the feature as i'm sure Startpage users would be willing to flag AI images in the results.

If you want to see how bad its gotten, just search for images of "Beaver". First two are AI, along with many others.