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by Bancakes 1917 days ago
You really like to shill startpage for some reason despite a search engine needing 0 advertisements?
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karinakarina 1917 days ago
As mentioned above - I'm a Startpage employee. I know quite a bit about the subject so I jump in when it comes up.

Advertising on a search engine is main form of revenue > pays employees > updates > keeps current users and gets new users. You could make the argument for crowd sourcing, but it doesn't always work.

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Bancakes 1917 days ago
Interesting. I'm happy startpage gets revenue, whatever it is. I think I'll keep using ddg and a searx instance.
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