why'd this get downvotes
Recommending Medium and Blogger in a privacy community is terrible advice. It's disappointing that this is actually getting upvoted.
Edit: The other two comments provide actual private recommendations. This comment would be fine outside a privacy community.
it is a fact. you have to be logged in to do a search or use an API key which directly associates your search query with your account.
Let's say you don't give them a real email, that's good. Maybe you're using Tor or a VPN and they don't get your IP. And somehow you manage to make your payment anonymously. That's great.
Well, Kagi is still getting all your search queries which are directly associated with one account. We don't have their server's code. We don't know how or what are they logging. They can claim whatever in their privacy policy, I don't care. A single entity is receiving all your search queries directly linked to your pseudonymous account. This gives them a vast amount of data about the person using it, even if they do not know who you are, probably very sensitive information too.
Let's make a huge assumption and assume they are not correlating your search queries and they do not use this information for anything. Well, a third party actor with access to their servers could very well make use of this vast amount of personal data, whether it is a government, their hosting provider, a malicious actor, a security breach, etc.
And that's considering the best case in which you were covering your tracks hiding your IP all the time and making anonymous payments, which, being honests, most Kagi users don't do. So yeah, Kagi is a privacy nightmare.
yet another Kagi shiller.
they are still pulling results from Bing. they are partially powered by their own engine, but it has a minor database of sites when compared to Bing.
And needing to have an account is just horrible for privacy.
what a surprise, yet another search engine related post where there's someone making promotion for Kagi in the comments.
It's just getting used to it. You can add the Collins (or any other dictionary search to Firefox) and it's as easy as selecting the correct search engine and writing the word in the search box.
there was an app for Wiktionary on fdroid. But I don't like Wiktionary's definitions as much as Collins'.
immutable OSs are killing the desktop OS, keeping the user restricted.
yeah, phone number and centralization makes it no good. XMPP it is.
I just use the Collins dictionary which is the best one IMO through Tor. There's no private (good) dictionary.
Edit: Also, installing an app for everything is not great for privacy either. They have a greater access to your device than a web. And for something I can perform in a web search, that's my preferred method.
they're downvoting you because your logic was "apple does hardware so they must know better" and trusting a big corp to do your encryption better is kind of innocent.
anyway, seeing that they do hardware encryption, they are right to downvote you. I'm not with Microsoft either, bitlocker is probably backdoored, but hey, at least you're not trusting your hardware manufacturer to actually maintain an up-to-date secure firmware.
if it's made for power users why is it proprietary software? Vivaldi is yet another chromium browser with a fancy skin.
what are you talking about? XMPP doesn't have such a thing as default settings. It varies from client to client. There are clients which have E2EE enabled by default, clients which make it available, others that support it with a plugin and there are others that do not support E2EE.
That's no excuse to avoid XMPP. XMPP is an open standard, the key is choosing a good implementation.
It was a stupid decision to attend a party created by the creators of a stupidly overpriced asset.