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meow2u3

(24,761 posts) Thu Jun 20, 2013, 02:41 PM Jun 2013

There's a new search engine that respects your privacy

I kid you not. It's called Startpage and protects your privacy.

No, this is not spam. It's a public service announcement.

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There's a new search engine that respects your privacy (Original Post) meow2u3 Jun 2013 OP

You mean I won't have ads for dumpsters littered all over every web page I open? Buzz Clik Jun 2013 #1

I will check it out. Thanks. n/t cynatnite Jun 2013 #2

who here is old enough to recall when GOOGLE was the new darling that would save us all? nt msongs Jun 2013 #3

Google RILib Jun 2013 #5

when i heard their motto was 'dont be evil', i thought 'watch out' markiv Jun 2013 #8

Thanks. Here's another one that's being recommended Catherina Jun 2013 #4

Now if I could just find a private replacement for gmail. dixiegrrrrl Jun 2013 #6

gmail RILib Jun 2013 #10

My Gmail account is for non-personal use. dixiegrrrrl Jun 2013 #12

Not sort of like thunderbird RILib Jun 2013 #13

This message was self-deleted by its author ohheckyeah Jun 2013 #7

Is there a way to turn on auto-complete? BenzoDia Jun 2013 #9

When you go to startpage.com, click on settings meow2u3 Jun 2013 #11

Buzz Clik

(38,437 posts)

1. You mean I won't have ads for dumpsters littered all over every web page I open?

Reply to meow2u3 (Original post)

Thu Jun 20, 2013, 02:42 PM

Jun 2013

cynatnite

(31,011 posts)

2. I will check it out. Thanks. n/t

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Thu Jun 20, 2013, 02:45 PM

Jun 2013

msongs

(67,368 posts)

3. who here is old enough to recall when GOOGLE was the new darling that would save us all? nt

Reply to meow2u3 (Original post)

Thu Jun 20, 2013, 02:58 PM

Jun 2013

RILib

(862 posts)

5. Google

Reply to msongs (Reply #3)

Thu Jun 20, 2013, 03:15 PM

Jun 2013

Some year: Don't be evil

Years later: "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."

markiv

(1,489 posts)

8. when i heard their motto was 'dont be evil', i thought 'watch out'

Reply to RILib (Reply #5)

Thu Jun 20, 2013, 03:31 PM

Jun 2013

in school, any time a teacher said on the first day 'i'm different than the other teachers', and went on about how much fairer they were, they were invariably the WORST

Catherina

(35,568 posts)

4. Thanks. Here's another one that's being recommended

Reply to meow2u3 (Original post)

Thu Jun 20, 2013, 03:05 PM

Jun 2013

Search DuckDuckGo

https://duckduckgo.com/

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)

6. Now if I could just find a private replacement for gmail.

Reply to meow2u3 (Original post)

Thu Jun 20, 2013, 03:24 PM

Jun 2013

RILib

(862 posts)

10. gmail

Reply to dixiegrrrrl (Reply #6)

Thu Jun 20, 2013, 04:16 PM

Jun 2013

No matter how you get email, it goes through some ISP's server, yes? no? Where I assume it can be taken by the feds?

A different concern, I use thunderbird, so at least I have the email on my pc and backed up, not subject to ISP servers bellying up.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)

12. My Gmail account is for non-personal use.

Reply to RILib (Reply #10)

Thu Jun 20, 2013, 06:16 PM

Jun 2013

We have a fairly small ISP, not one of the Big 6 type, and until last year it hosted our "personal" email..sorta like Thunderbird.
But then it announced that Yahoo was going to be our new email provider, and that we had to trot over to Yahoo, get an account, so Yahoo could send us the personal email and keep everything "in the cloud".
the ISP will no longer host email on its own servers.
Turns out I could relay ANY email client besides Yahoo, so I chose Opera email, which beams down to my personal mailbox.

Now that I have reading so much about the NSA snooping, I realize that my ISP sold out to Yahoo, making it ever so convenient for the gov to peek into my personal mailbox.