After reading that essay I feel a lot more queasy about using Kagi. It’s just that I really despise ads, but I’m willing to put up with it, if the search engine company is more ethical. For the moment I’ve downgraded my account from 10 to 5 bucks a month. I wasn’t using any of the AI features anyway.
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Mora@pawb.social 2 days agoThis old blog post summarises a lot of pain points: d-shoot.net/kagi.html
Similar to Brave (and more recently Proton) I simply can’t trust them, despite liking the idea of their respective services.
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Dave@lemmy.nz 1 day ago
Isn’t this just the path of an immature company?
There’s a guy who is probably a programmer and he makes a thing, starts trying to sell it. Nothing here stands out as bad intentions, it just makes me think of what it might look like if I tried to start a company (a lot of stumbling).
Plus the blog post is pretty clear it’s their personal views. They spend a lot of time talking about the AI crap but when using Kagi it seems less intrusive than Google, and you can turn it off.
I dunno, I’ve seen this blog posted around a few times and there isn’t anything in here that puts me off so long as I treat it as what it is, a subscription for that month, not an investment in the future. If the company goes bankrupt because the CEO spent investors’ money starting a t-shirt company then I’ll just use a different search when they shut down.
Probably worth noting I use a relay email address not my main one, but I do that for almost everything.
Hominine@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Excellent read, thanks!