I would make this short, because I've lost my last submission because of an expired link (my bad)<p>I've found that the ads (from google) on startpage.com aren't really anonymous, because I found them tied to my country (I've tried the same search from Tor Browser and the ads weren't country sensitive). I understand that the request to get the google ads isnt anonyoums like the search.<p>So I wonder, Is really useful to have an anonymous search engine if you need Tor in both cases (StartPage vs. Google)?
Is this something important for the most "privacy conscious" out there?
It's not bulletproof. Your IP address is extractable from your IP address. StartPage probably requests ads from Google with your search keywords and country your from (found using your IP).<p>Only services like Tor that uses onion routing method to randomize your origin.