Startpage — Private Search Engine

Take back your online privacy by using Startpage as your default search engine.

Users200K

Rating4.0

Reviews104

Manifest versionV3

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Version3.0.8

ManifestV3

Size19.96KiB

Languages2Deutsch / English

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Install "Startpage - Private Search Engine extension" to set your default search engine to Startpage Search, allowing you to search the web in complete privacy without being tracked.

Startpage is a private search engine with no tracking, storing, or selling users’ search history. To ensure you have "always-on" search privacy AND to search Startpage directly from your URL bar, we recommend installing our search engine extension.

The Startpage private search extension:

- Does NOT save, share, or sell your personal or search engine data

- Doesn’t drop 3rd party trackers and cookies like other search engines

- Ensures unprofiled search results, guaranteeing the same information for everyone in the world

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AI product read

Sets Startpage as the default search engine in Chrome, providing privacy-focused web search without tracking

Protects user search privacy by replacing default search engines (Google, Bing, etc.) that track, store, and sell user search history with a private alternative that does not track users

1. User installs extension → Startpage is set as default search engine via chrome_settings_overrides. 2. User searches via browser address bar → queries are redirected to startpage.com/do/dsearch. 3. Extension injects custom headers (extension version, segment, campaign data) into requests. 4. Content script on startpage.com handles SERP onboarding UI and extension health monitoring. 5. Toolbar icon click opens startpage.com homepage.

Target users: Privacy-conscious web users / Users concerned about search tracking and profiling / Users who want unprofiled search results / Users subject to GDPR/CCPA privacy regulations

Startpage.com may have its own paid products or business plans not visible in the extension code
The 'Anonymous View' proxy feature is mentioned in the store description but is implemented on the website, not in the extension itself

Monetization

No paid features detected

No payment processing code exists in the extension (no Stripe, no subscription checks, no license validation, no premium/upgrade UI). All 'pro' keyword hits from static scan are false positives: they appear in JSDoc @returns annotations (e.g. 'Promise'), the product identifier string 'product: STARTPAGE', the Chrome manifest field 'search_provider', and the word 'process'. The extension is completely free to use with no feature gating.

Confidence: 97
Payment platform: --
Source: AI / High
Login required: No
Reason: No login UI or authentication flow exists in the extension. The 'account' keyword found in the code is purely an installation tracking/attribution parameter (default value: 'none') used for campaign analytics headers sent to startpage.com, NOT for user authentication. Users can search the web immediately after installation without any account. Startpage.com itself does not require an account to perform searches.

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敏感权限：declarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess
扩展能力较强：storage

Publisher

Startpage.com

Alexander van Eesteren

Email: [email protected]
Phone: +18882669949
Address: Wilhelmina van Pruisenweg 104 Den Haag 2595 AN NL

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