Firefox users were choosing Startpage long before today — to the tune of more than a billion searches a year, every one of them required some assembly: a

Firefox users were choosing Startpage long before today — to the tune of more than a billion searches a year, every one of them required some assembly: an extension, a manual setting, a workaround.

  • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
    5·
    1 month ago

    Why does Mozilla claim it’s European?

    Why Europe first

    This launch starts in Startpage’s home markets: a Netherlands-based search engine

      • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
        8·
        1 month ago

        So it’s HQ in NL and owned by Americans? Also marketing is as “privacy-friendly” while being owned by an advertising company is an oxymoron. Seems like propaganda to me.

        • who@feddit.orgEnglish
          1·
          1 month ago

          See also: Motorola Mobility, which is not the successor of the now-defunct Motorola Inc. The headquarters of this separate company is in the USA, but it’s owned by a Chinese company.

          (For context, the upcoming GrapheneOS phone is a Motorola Mobility device.)