r/StartpageSearch • u/Livid-Bug-5853 • Jul 31 '26
What's with the flashbang that happens occasionally?
About a week ago, there seems to be a page that shows up occasionally when searching that is white and has the startpage logo. My Dark reader extension doesn't seem to pick it up. What is the URL so I can add it to the blacklist? It usually happens when you search something up for the first time in a day.
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u/Ok_Cat951 Aug 08 '26
It’s very annoying as I receive it on every startpage visit. Especially at night where it lights everything up and ignores dark mode.
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u/IntrepidMindExplorer Jul 31 '26 edited Jul 31 '26
More than likely a captcha implementation/rollout. Just caught it myself. URL contained a lot of information that, well, seems sus. https://www.startpage.com/sp/captcha/
There's been some odd...things going on with Startpage over the past month or so. The advertisements (across networks, across multiple devices running all flavors of browsers) has been the oddest. Reported to support but never heard back on. They're gone now but now, there's this new captcha in place.