Startpage Privacy Protection

Name: Startpage Privacy Protection
Rating: 2 (3 reviews)
Author: Startpage

The Startpage Privacy Protection extension provides private search and online data protection.

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Startpage Privacy Protection is a powerful Chrome extension designed to safeguard your online privacy effortlessly. It sets Startpage.com as your default search engine, ensuring your searches remain private and untracked. The extension automatically blocks trackers and cookies from websites, preventing advertisers and third parties from collecting your personal data. Additionally, it provides a privacy scoring system for websites, allowing you to monitor their privacy practices in real-time.

With Startpage Privacy Protection, you can override social media tracking with click-to-activate options, prevent browser fingerprinting, and send global privacy control signals to websites reflecting your privacy preferences. The extension also offers a quick-exit feature by pressing the "esc" key four times, enhancing your security during browsing. Empower yourself to control what personal data is shared across the internet with this easy-to-use privacy extension.

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Rating:

Version:

1.1.5 Last updated: 2022-11-07

Creation date:

2022-05-12

Risk:

Permissions:

webRequest
webRequestBlocking
https://www.startpage.com/*
tabs
http://*/*
https://*/*
webNavigation
storage
cookies
privacy

Size:

4.09MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Edge Add-on Store

Data ingested on:

2025-07-09

Ranking

# 3,693 ▼ 11

Other rankings

#23 in privacy keyword 53 ▼ 1

#24 in data privacy keyword 29

#61 in override keyword 19

#64 in engine keyword 12 ▼ 2

#119 in cookie keyword 59 ▼ 3

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User reviews

Used to work great until recently. Now it refuses to block anything and won't return a privacy score. None of the buttons, checkboxes, or anything else interactable on the extension work either.

by Ma*****, 2024-10-19

Useless. I not using vpn and still cannot use this pathetic "search system".

by Mê*****, 2023-05-09

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Risk impact measures the level of extra permissions an extension has access to. A low risk impact extension cannot do much harms, whereas a high risk impact extension can do a lot of damage like stealing your password, bypassing your security settings, and accessing your personal data. High risk impact extensions are not necessarily malicious. However, if they do turn malicious, they can be very harmful.

Startpage Privacy Protection requires a lot of sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
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Startpage Privacy Protection is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.

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