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[–] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Distrust everything by Kagi, they are the shadowy "private" company there is, it's just propaganda.

[–] eodur@piefed.social 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html

Basically everything being said here. They don't offer the source code of quite a few of their apps, they have very delirious ideas about what is identifiable information, they are trying to jump into the AI bandwagon, they don't seem to have a serious plan to keep financing all the things they are doing, the dude wants to do some filtering of news based on "biased" "unbiased", doesn't listen to critique from users, etc.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

I will follow-up on your link later but let me first just thank you sincerely for backing up your opinion. I appreciate it and hope to learn something.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Almost certainly just somebody that distrusts all business by default.

I am all for holding business to account but can we not acknowledge that much of what we love in our lives would not be possible without business?

Kagi is not my friend or anything but they seem like a pretty decent company to me. I have seen no reason to be so cynical about them.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago

but can we not acknowledge that much of what we love in our lives would not be possible without business?

It could be better.

[–] RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

A search company which requires an account with your actual email? And doesn't accept anonymous payments?

It's fine as one of the options, but if there's no option for tokenized identity (that's easy to change when the plan runs out) and anonymous payments, it's a data collecting operation like any other.

See Mullvad and PPQ for how it's done correctly.

[–] hersh@literature.cafe 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Kagi actually does have an anonymous authentication option. https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-privacy-pass

[–] RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Glad that they added it, it wasn't there when I tested them. Why does such a simple thing require a browser extension though

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Because it’s not private if it needs that level of access.

[–] techwooded@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm interested where this comes from too. Is it just because they aren't a FOSS project?

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'd rather pay for search, than to be the product of a search engine. Self-hosting a decent index is much harder than it seems. Kagi aren't ontologically evil in the same way as Google or Microsoft so I think it's the best option.