Startpage - Private Browser

Justin

But you have to go deep into settings to make everything private. I was annoyed by several presets, like allowing third-party apps and exempting website offline data from the zap.

Love the searches offering various diversified results and privacy is very effective.

They claim ad blocking which is completely false.

Edit: Appreciate the dev response — Still having the zap button issue, I'm down to demonstrate it but its not much more complex than described, if the last thing I do is press the zap button (and not close any tabs manually) my tabs go away, but then come back the next time I open the app. I'm happy to file a bug report if asked. As for the AI features, while I do appreciate being able to turn them off, my knocking of stars is due to their presence at all, as these general purpose chatbots have multiple documented cases of giving advice that furthered killings and suicides. I don't think they're safe even if I can personally turn them off, and making them private is nice but does not resolve that issue. Original Review: Wanted a replacement for the duckduckgo app since they've started using LLMs and their search had gotten worse. I still like the startpage search, but this app behaves strangely at times, and it can get annoying. First of all, they've now added their own LLMs, so I'd have to switch *again* to avoid that. More importantly for the app itself, the zap tabs button behaves weirdly inconsistently. Sometimes I will hit it and the tabs will simply not clear, and other times I will hit it, reload the app, and suddenly all my closed tabs will be back. I mainly use the button to clear clutter, but if you had cookies that needed to be cleared, such as a banking or work login, this could cause more serious problems. The app also seems to be more likely to break websites than other mobile browsers. Less sure of the specific problem there but it makes me have to switch to safari every once in a while. Always want to root for privacy focused companies but you'll want a backup browser if you use this. (P.S. Devs if you're reading this, a really easy feature add that would be very nice would be a swipe feature to switch tabs, Brave lets you do this by swiping on the bottom button bar, makes switching tabs much much faster)

Best search engine - more reliable search results - No Regrets!

Easy to use . No monthly charge. It lets me know when it’s a good time to clear my browsing . And it's private . I give it a thumbs up

Having a choice is good. It causes competition which causes everyone to improve our lose

This is one of the best search engines. It gives you excellent results and privacy.

It Works Very Good!