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Is it MS production?
No chance to choose search engine instead of bing..! Bad choice.
Yes! A thousand times YES!
Startpage might be my number one browser for iOS. I would always switch between Startpage, and DuckDuckGo, but when DuckDuckGo go added their “free and ALWAYS optional AI”. I migrated to Startpage again. Then Startpage added vanishing AI. So I vanished, but I never got around to uninstalling the app. I had forgotten that I even had it on my phone until I saw an update for it. So I updated it. Opened the app to see if they turned on AI again, and I couldn’t find the settings. So I thought “great now it is baked in”. So I go back to the App Store to see change logs, and that’s when I saw it. Vanishing AI. It was its own entity. No longer apart of the browser. I was so excited that I asked the nice people over at Startpage if they took out AI,
And the reply verbatim:
“We use to offer StartpageAI as part of the iOS app. We removed that due to extremely low usage, as well as many of our users saying that they did not want AI tied in to our core search product. So to be crystal clear: AI is truly gone from the iOS browser app.”
So if you are looking for a no AI browser. Your search has ended.
Other developers take note, and read the room.
Kudos to the Startpage team. Thank you for listening to your users.
And the reply verbatim:
“We use to offer StartpageAI as part of the iOS app. We removed that due to extremely low usage, as well as many of our users saying that they did not want AI tied in to our core search product. So to be crystal clear: AI is truly gone from the iOS browser app.”
So if you are looking for a no AI browser. Your search has ended.
Other developers take note, and read the room.
Kudos to the Startpage team. Thank you for listening to your users.
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So refreshing to have a non-ai alternative! As a college student it’s become increasingly harder to find anything credible because you have to wade through all of the ai nonsense first. Thank you for your work!
Excellent
Privacy is important to me. Startpage works and the simplicity is perfect especially after the visual whiplash I got from Chrome.
