Startpage Provides Users With Secret Surfing
If you are concerned about your online privacy, then perhaps using Startpage is the best approach to keeping things private for you. With more concern growing for online privacy, no longer are proxies only for those looking to use them for nefarious reasons.
In today’s world, now more than ever, it seems that we are seeing folks looking for new and creative ways to prevent big brother from spying what they’re doing. At least that seems to be where Startpage is going with this.
So now for the million dollar question – should you use Startpage for it’s proxy options? I am leaning with no, simply because I think that using proxies provide a false sense of security. Best defense against losing your privacy is simply to do everything you can to protect your private information.
2 Comments
Jo Giraerts
March 3rd, 2010
at 9:32am
So, instead of giving our surfing data to Google, we now give it to some arbitrary other entity with even less credibility?
Right!
Rick
March 14th, 2010
at 4:49am
“no longer are proxies only for those looking to use them for nefarious reasons.”
You’re missing out on the millions and millions of people in countries where censorship and government oppression exist, and those millions of people dwarf the relatively few nefarious people you’re talking about… Even people outside of censorship use secure proxy services when accessing the internet from wireless hotspots.
I’m a founding partner at a company that provides secure, encrypted proxy connections. In certain countries, using a secure proxy is a necessity for protection against the oppressive governments as well as just getting access to blocked sites such as youtube, facebook, or blog sites.
Looking at startpage.com’s offering, it should hardly be considered a solution for privacy. Ever. Even using standard unencrypted proxies is not a solution, as your communication still goes through as plaintext.