Bug #535
closedSearch query operator not supported, affects Startpage.com
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Description
When I try to use custom settings for startpage in "Search" settings, I cannot get it to work. I approached Startpage for help, and they sent me this email detailing the process:
"If you would like to apply your custom Startpage settings to our query URL, please
follow these steps:
1) Navigate to the Startpage settings: https://www.startpage.com/search/settings
2) Select the preferences you would like to use and copy one of the two settings
URLs at the bottom of the page
3) From the settings URL, copy the remainder of the URL after the question mark, for
example:
prfe=36c84513558a2d34bf0d89ea505333ad9c86bd6598735d590c1c89932309a9bc971ed4e94bb93cd3745625d261b6aec0
4) Paste that at the end of our query URL
(https://www.startpage.com/do/dsearch?query=%s), starting with a '&' symbol.
5) Using the example settings URL mentioned in step 3, your customized query URL
would look like this:
https://www.startpage.com/do/dsearch?query=%s&prfe=36c84513558a2d34bf0d89ea505333ad9c86bd6598735d590c1c89932309a9bc971ed4e94bb93cd3745625d261b6aec0
If you use this customized query URL when adding Startpage as a search engine, your
custom Startpage settings will always be used (without the need of the settings
cookie).
I hope this helps. Please let us know if you have any additional questions."
It doesn't work however, because apparently Privacy Browser doesn't support the "%s" operator for searches.
Not sure if it counts as a bug or a feature request... But given that it's a search operator used by other sites as well, I am counting this as a bug. Please correct me if I am wrong.
Thanks.