{"id":29288,"date":"2025-05-20T11:50:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=29288"},"modified":"2025-05-16T15:00:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T19:00:30","slug":"tech-tip-anonymous-view-by-startpage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2025\/05\/20\/tech-tip-anonymous-view-by-startpage\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Tip: Anonymous View by Startpage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/anonyviewstartpage-Chase-Masters-600x352.png\" alt=\"A purple eye mask on a white desktop computer screen.\" class=\"wp-image-29287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/anonyviewstartpage-Chase-Masters-600x352.png 600w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/anonyviewstartpage-Chase-Masters-300x176.png 300w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/anonyviewstartpage-Chase-Masters-768x450.png 768w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/anonyviewstartpage-Chase-Masters-665x390.png 665w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/anonyviewstartpage-Chase-Masters.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>This month, I&#8217;m sharing a tool by <a href=\"https:\/\/startpage.com\/\">Startpage<\/a> that enables users to visit websites without disclosing their IP addresses or personal information. It acts as an intermediary between the user and the destination site. By routing web traffic through Startpage&#8217;s servers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.startpage.com\/en\/anonymous-view\/\">Anonymous View<\/a> ensures that your online activities remain private and protected from tracking, ads, and data collection. It\u2019s an ideal solution for anyone looking to browse the web securely while preserving their digital privacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How are you protecting your data online? Do you use a VPN or something similar? Please share in the comments below!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Have a cool app, tool, or tech tip you\u2019d like to share? <a href=\"mailto:mastersc@umich.edu\">Contact Chase Masters.<\/a> Please note that Tech Tips are personal recommendations and might not be officially endorsed or supported by U-M.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month&#8217;s tip is Anonymous View by Startpage, a tool that enables users to visit websites without disclosing their IP addresses or personal information<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":9792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[121,547],"class_list":["post-29288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-privacy","tag-tech-tip"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark.png",200,140,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark.png",200,140,false],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark.png",200,140,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark.png",200,140,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark.png",200,140,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark.png",200,140,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark.png",200,140,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark.png",200,140,false],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark-60x42.png",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark.png",200,140,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark.png",200,140,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark.png",200,140,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Chase Masters, University Library","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mastersc\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"This month's tip is Anonymous View by Startpage, a tool that enables users to visit websites without disclosing their IP addresses or personal information","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29290,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29288\/revisions\/29290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}