Daily Shaarli
February 16, 2020
Your online privacy resource center
Dear PrivacyTools community,
On the 15th of October, it was brought to our attention that Startpage.com was
reportedly (partially?) taken over
[https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/di5rn3/startpage_is_now_owned_by_an_advertising_company/]
by a company called the Privacy One Group, which is in turn owned by a company
called System1. We found this quite remarkable as the two companies seem to have
conflicting business models. Startpage has been known for basing their
advertisements on what