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Try https://www.startpage.com/, which is google, with privacy, and without AI


Seems to be owned by an ad-tech company, the same one that bought (but later divested from) the Waterfox browser.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System1 ("System1 is an American Internet advertising company")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25716158 ("Startpage.com: Privacy-oriented search engine (startpage.com)"—88 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22338321 ("Waterfox sold to System1, an ad company that bought a majority of Startpage (reddit.com)"—92 comments)


It's really great, though for the time I've been using it, sometimes ads from the google side go through it.


Very cool, thanks for sharing.


See also:

Engineering / programming entry level jobs down by one third: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/02/23/fears-of-ai-...

Finance / corporate sectors entry level jobs down by one third: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/06/22/city-giants-...


I'll just say, "thank you".


Already done. Allows life to focus on more valuable things, like in the past. A Nokia in the bag for work and a tablet with a cracked screen in the cupboard for banking.


As a European resident, I have put in a complaint to the company for you. Should it be dismissed out-of-hand, I will forward a complaint to my national Information Commissioner's office. I will post any results.


out of curiosity: which company did you put in a complaint to?

about posting any results: I assume you are aware that after some time it is no longer possible to add comments to a HN discussion, I assume you will post any progress as a HN submission?


The Royal Society - "World's Oldest Independent Scientific Academy Dedicated to Promoting Scientific Excellence."

This report, Science in the age of AI (PDF), explores how AI technologies, such as deep learning or large language models, are transforming the nature and methods of scientific inquiry.

It also explores how notions of research integrity; research skills or research ethics are inevitably changing, and what the implications are for the future of science and scientists.


John Keats, Osamu Tezuka, Somerset Maugham, Hector Berlioz.

Studied medicine but did not practice (Keats did for a little while). Just for interest.


Also, Che Guevara.


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