Startpage, the world’s most private search engine, and its E.U. brand, Ixquick, announced yesterday the release of a proxy service that allows users to surf the web with complete privacy.
The proxy offers complete anonymity, since the user never makes direct contact with the third-party website. The user’s IP address is invisible to the viewed website. In addition, the website cannot see or place cookies on the user’s browser.
“People are more concerned about online data retention policies than ever before,” said CEO Robert Beens. “We wanted to offer them a useful tool and this proxy is a logical extension of our services. A search engine is a starting point for people to visit other pages. Now our users can take the privacy they get with Startpage to the next step, and go privately to the sites they have found as well. This proxy completes the total search privacy picture.”
The Startpage’s US spokeswoman, privacy expert Dr. Katherine Albrecht, explains the new feature:
How Startpage Proxy Works
First you have to the Startpage home page and perform a search:
Then, on the results page you will be able to see for every result a Proxy link:
By clicking on the proxy list, the page will open via a proxy. So, the visited website will not see your IP address but the address of the Startpage proxy.
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Well I knew about this search-engine for some time now,the above mentioned proxy service is news to me,still I think it basically acts as a proxy site!
This feature is same another Indian search engine – Yauba. Actually, it offers a web based proxy for you search and surf websites.
http://www.yauba.com/
Be serious…do you really believe this?Netherlands and E.U….who have the most severe rules for internet surveilance,asking the ISP to retain users data?No way.It might be good to watch restricted content,but not for privacy…nothing is secure.
“”No way.It might be good to watch restricted content,but not for privacy…nothing is secure.”"
True nothing is 100% secure and I also agree that a proxy site is a proxysite; regardless of what they add or tweak or change the basic idea of the term “PRoXY”. If that’s term is there it’s all the same basically. Plus I can’t stand haveing most of my video’s or Java not being able to run. Shure you can browse somewhat hidein, but at what cost..I can’t even go to youtube on some proxy site’s.
The netherlands is homebase for atone of server’s that aren’t all nice…They are held to a different TOS than we are..No tax’s either, weed is legal also there etc…
Hi,
If you use Ixquick HTTPS as a search engine, you always get the “proxy” option in the results – you don’t have to go to http://startpage.com/ to do a search.
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