Is Startpage Privacy Protection safe?
Sets Startpage as the default search engine and adds tracker, cookie, and privacy controls while browsing.
This extension changes the browser’s default search engine to startpage.com and provides tools to block trackers, cookies, and some fingerprinting scripts on visited websites. It shows website privacy scores, sends a Global Privacy Control signal, uses click-to-activate options for some embedded social, video, and music content, and can exit a page after pressing Esc four times.
Who publishes itStartpage - no other listings under this identity, 6 shared hostnames
Startpage - no other listings under this identity, 6 shared hostnames
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
Shared hosts - 6 hostnames
Hostnames hardcoded in this extension that few other listings call. That can mean one operator behind both, and it can equally mean a small shared vendor, so it is context rather than a conclusion. Hosts that many listings call are left out: they are services, not connections.
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Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Startpage Privacy Protection contacting. Sending data somewhere is not a finding on its own - an extension that syncs your settings has to talk to its own server - but it is where your data can go, and who else it goes to.
- www.startpage.com
Startpage Privacy Protection sends data to www.startpage.com. 2 other extensions we have analysed send data here.
- startpage.com
Startpage Privacy Protection sends data to startpage.com. One other extension we have analysed sends data here.