Startpage was bought by an advertising company about a year ago. I don’t know how compromised they have become because of that but I no longer use startpage.
I have been using DuckDuckGo for some time. The fact that evil google takes 3rd party cookies and exploits them is no surprise and of concern, but that is google being evil, as always.
I have also been using Qwant lately it seems ok. You might try that.
Thx. I’ve been using ddg for awhile now.
Time to change.
I just tried Qwant, they use google analytics and their search engine is horrible. It doesn’t find anything at all!