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“From sensitive search queries like ‘how to get out of debt’ to social posts featuring your child’s face to e-commerce sites that stalk your holiday shopping habits, bits of personal data are saved and sold every second,” said Robert E.G. Startpage default: The extension sets the user’s default search engine to Startpage, ensuring searches are private, not saved, sold, or used for profiling but maintain the best results.

While other extensions on the market boast their own scoring methods, Startpage is the only one that ranks sites before blockers are applied to expose the site’s true privacy reputation.

“True Score” privacy ranking: The extension evaluates and displays a 1-5 privacy rating based on each site’s privacy practices.

Replaces invasive social defaults: The extension replaces social media, video, and music site tracking defaults with “click-to-activate” options, encouraging safer social media practices and delivering greater transparency.

Provides control over cookies: The extension stops trackers from being placed on search activities by advertisers and third parties entirely or, unique compared to any other extensions on the market, enables users to enable cookies from certain domains as preferred or necessary.

Blocks “Data Collection”: The extension prohibits third-party sites from using special scripts to collect information about you.

Sends “Global Privacy Control” signals: The extension sends Global Privacy Control (Do-Not-Track) signals to visited sites with your privacy preferences.The Startpage Privacy Protection browser extension blocks these trackers and shields users from invasive targeted advertising with easy-to-use features that provide anyone with more control over their online privacy, including:

In fact, according to Startpage’s analysis of the top 15 websites in the United States, leading news outlets CNN and Fox News had upwards of 40 trackers or cookies on their homepages. Startpage, a search engine that lets anyone search online without personal data collection, tracking, or targeting, unveiled the Startpage Privacy Protection browser extension.Īvailable now for free download on Chrome and Firefox, the extension lets people browse the Internet more securely, automatically blocking first- and third-party trackers, while giving them more control over their browsing and searching experience.Īccording to research, 87 percent of the world’s most popular web domains engage in digital tracking.