Firefox users were choosing Startpage long before today — to the tune of more than a billion searches a year, every one of them required some assembly: a

Firefox users were choosing Startpage long before today — to the tune of more than a billion searches a year, every one of them required some assembly: an extension, a manual setting, a workaround.

  • who@feddit.orgEnglish
    18·
    2 months ago

    Possibly better than doing searches directly through Google, but keep this in mind:

    Startpage is owned and operated by Surfboard Holding BV, which is majority owned by System1, an American internet advertising company.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startpage

    • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      Why does Mozilla claim it’s European?

      Why Europe first

      This launch starts in Startpage’s home markets: a Netherlands-based search engine

        • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
          8·
          2 months ago

          So it’s HQ in NL and owned by Americans? Also marketing is as “privacy-friendly” while being owned by an advertising company is an oxymoron. Seems like propaganda to me.

          • who@feddit.orgEnglish
            1·
            2 months ago

            See also: Motorola Mobility, which is not the successor of the now-defunct Motorola Inc. The headquarters of this separate company is in the USA, but it’s owned by a Chinese company.

            (For context, the upcoming GrapheneOS phone is a Motorola Mobility device.)