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startpage.com

All blocked

Every URL under startpage.com that we can reach a verdict on — 20 of them — is blocked in mainland China. The site itself, https://startpage.com, is blocked. The Great Firewall poisons its DNS, silently drops its packets so requests time out and breaks its TLS handshake. 772 tests have been run under this domain since 2012-05-10, the most recent on 2026-07-29.

DNS poisoning 20 Timeout / silent drop 13 TLS handshake failure 6 Connection failed 2 Connection reset 1
20URLs tested
20blocked
772tests all-time
2012first tested
2 d agolast tested

The site itself

http://startpage.comBlockedhttps://startpage.comBlockedhttp://www.startpage.comBlockedhttps://www.startpage.comas of 2026Blocked

Pages and subdomains (16)

https://startpage.com/do/searchBlockedhttps://startpage.com/do/search?q=shadowsocksBlockedhttps://StartPage.com/do/search?q=CloudFront%E5%A4%A7%E6%B3%95%E5%A5%BDas of 2026Blockedhttps://startpage.com/do/search?q=%E5%A4%A9%E5%AE%89%E9%97%A8+%E4%B8%AD%E5%85%B1+%E5%B1%A0%E6%9D%80as of 2026Blockedhttps://startpage.com?segment=startpage.sem.2&utm_source=adwords&spaid=1294490490&spcid=10761979410&spagid=105504191265&creative=454640502192Blockedhttps://eu.startpage.comas of 2026Blockedhttps://www.startpage.com/enas of 2026Blockedhttps://www.startpage.com/sp/qiBlockedhttps://www.startpage.com/sp/searchas of 2026Blockedhttps://eu-browse.startpage.com/av/proxyBlockedhttps://eu-browse.startpage.com/av/proxy?Blockedhttps://www.startpage.com?sc=nsDJa4mG8x0e20&t=darkBlockedhttps://www.startpage.com/do/search?q=%E5%A5%BD%E6%B3%95%E5%A4%A7%E8%BD%AE%E6%B3%95as of 2026Blockedhttps://www.startpage.com/av/proxy-image?piurl=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic01.nyt.com%2Fimages%2F2020%2F01%2F31%2Fworld%2F00china-doctor%2F00virus-reconstruct-1-jumbo.jpg&sp=1641719851Ta8f2982951b84580f06b0a623e075916aad1970e9989d3fdb6d4c9acd893a7d5as of 2026Blockedhttps://eu-browse.startpage.com/av/proxy?ep=4c52565258786374436c4532557742555453466a64525652545555785242467264556b5065477833526c394f546838375831307751554a65555352674d6d35495446517951313033576b6b506548707a4e78414e41516c77417849745541314a583352794e423966584Blockedhttps://eu-browse.startpage.com/av/proxy?ep=5047493649324974666a4572497a4d32637a64304d486b704e7941314e337073515870674132467a42534d794d334534627a41314b5346764944736f5957305a4a57775559485a334b7a68676478733062336b6865444d6b4958497749443472595749784943456b656Blocked

About startpage.com and the Great Firewall

Is startpage.com blocked in mainland China?

Every URL under startpage.com that we can reach a verdict on — 20 of them — is blocked in mainland China. The site itself, https://startpage.com, is blocked. The Great Firewall poisons its DNS, silently drops its packets so requests time out and breaks its TLS handshake. 772 tests have been run under this domain since 2012-05-10, the most recent on 2026-07-29.

How can I reach startpage.com from mainland China?

A VPN or another circumvention tool routes the request outside mainland China, past the filtering that blocks startpage.com. GreatFire runs GreatFire VPN; the Analyzer also tests the domains of many VPN and proxy providers, so you can check whether one is reachable before relying on it.

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