I'm a privacy guy too but you can answer your argument with security reasons.
Don't try to make sense. They wanna hear "choose-your-side" opinions
I mean, you could just stop with the movies if it is that bad. Aaahh everyone is a critic.
Is that true? They don't encrypt labels on proton?
Not my brightness moment.
Who rats the rat?
such a fun guy
Still pretty proprietary in my books
You beautiful bot!
They don't follow the EU law of deleting data after request?
Yes, I'm familiar with SearXNG, but every time I tried searching for something complex on different instances, I would encounter the following error: "Sorry! we didn't find any results. Please use another query or search in more categories." I genuinely appreciate what they're trying to accomplish with that project, but I'm not in a position to test something if it doesn't demonstrate the same efficiency as a established product. Let's say I can't afford to be a beta tester right now.
To a lesser extent, I had a similar experience with Brave, as its results align more with what I expect from Google (and therefore, StartPage).
DuckDuckGo, when I tried using it as an alternative, never provided me with better results than what StartPage offered. I'd love for it to work for me, but I simply end up spending more time there than on other search engines.