from comments below the blog post: "Startpage was not happy with our traffic and showed sometimes CAPTCHAs. Disconnect on the other hand approached us with respect to search engine traffic and donated some money."
Especially since they are available via a hidden service, removing the "malicious exit node" risk: http://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion
(Note, if you're reading Gabriel, the http://ye.gg/tor url you've handed out in various places including the privacy page - is dead and redirecting to just http://ye.gg/)
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from comments below the blog post: "Startpage was not happy with our traffic and showed sometimes CAPTCHAs. Disconnect on the other hand approached us with respect to search engine traffic and donated some money."
Why wouldn't they use DuckDuckGo?
Especially since they are available via a hidden service, removing the "malicious exit node" risk: http://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion
(Note, if you're reading Gabriel, the http://ye.gg/tor url you've handed out in various places including the privacy page - is dead and redirecting to just http://ye.gg/)