Welcome to an interview of Robert Beens, CEO of the privacy search engine Startpage. How does Startpage compare to DuckDuckGo and other search engines? What's their history? Is their recent collaboration a concern? How do they ensure your privacy? Are they a good service? Find out what their CEO has to say in this interview.

Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 1:08 Is there anything you want to start out with? 1:28 How do your company goals line up with privacy? 5:04 How would you compare a privacy metasearch engine to your service? 9:05 Who runs Startpage, and what is the life for an employee like? How's your company setup? 10:30 What separates Startpage from other privacy search engines? 17:10 What makes Startpage more secure and private than other options? 27:48 What are your plans in the future that you can share publicly? 32:30 What do you have to say about the recent ownership change? (System1) 34:12 Does the ownership change effect how data is shared or collected? 35:10 Do you have plans on open sourcing anything in the future? 36:20 If Startpage pays for Google results, how does Startpage make its money? 38:00 Does Starpage plan (or have you already) paid to be a browser default? 40:15 Final Words 40:50 Final Question: Do you have an onion site, and do you allow Tor users to access Startpage? 42:10 Actual Final Words

Startpage Resources: On our gem- the Anonymous View: https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/146/1/where-is-anonymous-view-formerly-the-startpage-proxy-and-how-do-i-use-it https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/1185/0/the-anonymous-view-proxytechnical-details On system 1 as a new shareholder: https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/1275/0/what-is-startpages-relationship-with-privacy-onesystem1-and-what-does-this-mean-for-my-privacy-protections Data flow diagram: https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/1276/0/what-is-the-startpage-privacy-guarding-data-flow On trust and Europrise certificate https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/714/0/how-can-your-privacy-policies-be-verified-can-users-trust-startpagecom-to-do-what-it-says On filter bubbles: https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/999/0/how-startpagecom-keeps-you-out-of-the-quotfilter-bubblequot On the power of defaults: https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/747/34/post-versus-get Settings URL: https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/1238/0/what-is-the-settings-url Owning our servers: https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/21/0/where-are-your-servers-located-and-how-does-this-impact-governmentlegal-requirements-to-record-share-or-hand-over-data https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/1001/0/is-startpagecom-self-hosted-or-hosted-within-a-data-center Tor: https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/288/0/how-does-startpagecom-interact-with-tor

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