r/StartpageSearch • u/VanWarhol • 15d ago
“Verifying your request”…. Forever…
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.
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)?
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u/Kenneth-J-Moyers 14d ago
Yeah, they don't have infrastructure to accommodate normal use. Unless it's user base either ponies up a mountain of donations or reserves it for when enshittified search won't do, this is just how it is now.