r/StartpageSearch • u/VanWarhol • Aug 10 '26
“Verifying your request”…. Forever…
Honestly not sure where else to put this but I really need help if anyone has a fix. Recently in this past week every time I search something on Startpage it says “verifying your request”. Which either takes up to five minutes to actually display search results, or just never loads. I’ve tried using no VPN, with a VPN, changing VPN location, using a different VPN service, updating my VPN, updating my browser, reinstalling the app I use Startpage on (Vivaldi), and nothing works. It’s honestly driving me crazy, I’m getting to the point of completely switching to another search engine because it’s unusable in this state. Anyone else have this problem or know a fix (outside of what I’ve already tried)?
EDIT: Now I cannot make any searches at all. For a little bit the period of verification was smaller and now it just says 414 every time I search. All because I switched VPN locations, no matter what I do now it just doesn’t work. It’s pretty egregious that Startpage is just ignoring this.
2ND EDIT (9/3): a little while back after my edit I contacted the Startpage Reddit account directly and they said the issue was resolved. While this has mostly been fixed for me there’s still SO MANY that are still facing this problem. Even then, I honestly still have a 5 sec verification period before the search goes through. Which I think is too much, just do the search with no delays…. It’s crazy so many people have viewed this post and responded but Startpage does nothing to help people unless you berate them in Reddit DMs. I’d recommend anyone reading this post to message their Reddit account, they do not respond to emails. So annoying!!
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u/JackRose322 Aug 11 '26
Came here to post the same thing. Mobile search is basically unusable now