Re: Security?

[davidson@ling.ohio-state.edu]

regarding startpage and its default behavior,

On Thu, 12 Sep 2013, recoverym4n@gmail.com wrote:
> TOR project seems to think that duckduckgo > startpage.
>
> Not that this 'enabled by default family filter' bothers me, but it can
> lead to unexpected results, as shown here:
>
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/8839#comment:7

there is no need to accept the default behavior.

startpage accepts options, passed in the url, that override the
default search settings:

 https://startpage.com/do/preferences.pl?language_ui=english_uk

fill out the form according to whatever behaviors you want, and then
hit the "generate URL" button.  then use the url generated, when you
want that behavior.

likewise for ixquick itself:

 https://ixquick.com/do/preferences.pl?language_ui=english

hth,
wes