[sireat]

Startpage appears to have been around a while and seems relatively open.

However, how does Startpage make money?

In fact, how does DDG plan to make money?

[0942v8653]

DDG proxies ads from Bing and so they make some revenue from that. It's a small team so it seems to be enough (for now anyway).

[newscracker]

Startpage shows text ads (similar to how Google Search ads used to be long ago). And it claims not to record the IP address [1].

[1]: https://startpage.com/eng/protect-privacy.html