Full disclosure:

In the spirit of Start Page, and in full disclosure, I honestly dont know if this works as promised. I dont have the technology or the know how to determine whether Start Page is as safe and as non-intrusive as they claim. However, I do believe the Big Boys do steal private info. Therefore, I choose to defer to a safer option of a search engine organization that at least claims to afford me privacy. The Start Page app appears to work as well as the others.

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