Use POST StartPage

[privatzee]

IMO, StartPage is better than DuckDuckGo because:

• it has their proxy, which you can use from the search results page for a quick look-see
• you can use it without javascript enabled, whereas DDG makes you click to get the noscripting page
• it's not in the USA whereas IIRC DDG is in the USA

Suggestion: make POST requests instead of GET, so there's no GET request data in Brave history or server logs

(I'm glad that I read the details for the update and so knew you added StartPage. Bravo.)

[bbondy]

Good suggestion, thanks. btw for DDG we have special handling for noscript to use that resource endpoint instead.

[bsclifton]

This is an interesting one; we can and should (for privacy reasons) implement HTTP POST for any provider (if they support it)...

The challenge might be the initial search (cc: @bbondy to sanity check me). Our search provider logic is currently filling in a string (ex: "http://searchEngine.com/{searchTermsHere}" and then navigating directly there (which I believe is doing an HTTP GET).

I'd have to check (and I could be very wrong), but I believe most browsers will do an HTTP GET when you hit enter to submit