

We've received many requests to support so-called private search engines such as Startpage, DuckDuckGo and others. We believe it is impossible at present to offer honest, free private search.

No other sites bypass our adblock or proxy so Epic works almost entirely as it always has except in respect to the Yahoo sites. Due to their policies, a few other Yahoo sites including Techcrunch, Engadget, Autoblog, HuffPo and AOL bypass our adblock. Their goal is to insure the integrity of their search ad marketplace. Upon ad click in Yahoo search, the proxy and adblock remain disabled for several seconds. According to their requirements, Yahoo search does bypass both our proxy and adblock. All searches sent to Yahoo are encrypted for your privacy and security. When you use the default Yahoo-powered search in Epic, you'll get better search results and support our mission including more frequent releases and hundreds more servers for our encrypted proxy/VPN.
