Hi @StartpageSearch.

Can you please elaborate on what you mean by “Startpage does not track your searches, but Firefox may do it”?

#Firefox #Startpage

@StartpageSearch ‪Hold on, you’re throwing Firefox under the bus while you don't even block third-party cookies by default in your own browser?‬

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@jrballesteros05 @karlemilnikka I suspect that what @StartpageSearch have done is they have written the code for that page so that it puts together the text shown like this:

"Startpage isn’t tracking your searches, but <BROWSERNAME> might be."

And then they just insert the browser name there if they know it, regardless of which browser it is, or if they do not have a name for it then they just write "your browser" there instead.

(I don't mean to defend what they did, it's really dumb.)

@eliasr @jrballesteros05 @StartpageSearch Yep. The call out Chrome, Edge and Firefox specifically. When using Safari, Vivaldi or Brave, they just say “your browser may do it”, something I take no issue with.

@karlemilnikka @eliasr @jrballesteros05 @StartpageSearch That's lazy coding honestly. They couldn't be bothered to write specif messages to the 5 browsers that exist?

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