I came across this article about a new “privacy search engine” called Privado, which seems to pull search results from Microsoft’s Bing in a similar way how Startpage pulls results from Google.
I’m not familiar with CodeFuel, the owner of the Privado search engine.
Some time ago I stopped using Startpage when it was taken over by some kind of digital marketing company.
Is this another questionable “privacy” search engine?
Duckduckgo is the best
“We don’t use cookies”.
Oh hey, what do you know? I see 2 cookies being used.
Besides that little annoyance, it bothers me that the website requires the use of javascript. DuckDuckGo doesn’t.
Here is the data they collect (according to the privacy policy):
I’m a little concerned about this part of the policy:
We may ask you for additional information to confirm your identity and for security purposes, before disclosing any such requested information to you or processing your request. We reserve the right to charge a fee where permitted by law, for instance if your request is manifestly unfounded or excessive.
As they don’t really elaborate on what they mean by “confirm your identity”.
Why would they need to?
Link to privacy policy: https://www.privado.com/about/privacy
I stumbled across this in a Forbes article yesterday. Made a quick visit just to see what it looked like but didn’t take the time too dig deep. I never cared for Startpage, and instead use DuckDuckGo. Given that Privado and DDG both pull from Bing, it will be interesting to compare the output from both.
which seems to pull search results from Microsoft’s Bing
So the same as DucDuckgo.
… Startpage pulls results from Google. …
Plus, for its news tab, Startpage.com uses Bing.
Startpage.com anonymous viewing of YouTube and other AV content : StartpageSearch – IIRC the second and third examples arose from results under the news tab.
Startpage Search Results 
alongside any result, click Anonymous view
… stopped using Startpage …
Recommended listening: Interviewing Robert Beens: The Startpage CEO – there’ll be a written transcript of last month’s interview in due course. Blogged, hopefully.
Super interesting thread!
The cookies on there are local storage only, so it’s not server-side cookies. If you check DDG, they also have cookies…
Fee free to read more here: https://medium.com/datadriveninvestor/cookies-vs-local-storage-2f3732c7d977
They seem pretty much identical.
Not seeing a reason to change at this point unless they can show themselves to be even more private or protective of user data.