Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option.

wittycomputer@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• shortrounddev@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s because you have to pay for the search engine. They dont serve ads

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• ehballah@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Feel like you’re jumping the gun a bit with this opinion. Kagi is one of the best options if you prioritize privacy. Have a closer look at their policies.

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  • LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • betternotbigger@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And if it changes, I will leave and stop paying. They are a user centric model. They thrive because of paying users.

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    • SabinStargem@lemmings.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This is what their Privacy Pass extension is for. Once it verifies you as an user, it doles out a bunch of generic “arcade tokens”, which don’t have any identifying information. You lose Kagi’s personalization features while using them, but your searches aren’t tied to any account beyond just “Kagi”, so you and everybody else using the privacy extension are the same person.

      At least, as I understand it.

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    • epchris@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Hoping to be constructive: how do you think search engines should operate? Or maybe how would you like one you consider “good” to operate?

      Album wondering how you see something like Privacy Pass that Kagi announced recently: blog.kagi.com/kagi-privacy-pass

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      • LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • shortrounddev@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      So you won’t pay for a subscription to use a search engine. Do you prefer the model that other search engines use where they take the content of your searches and use it to advertise to you?

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      • LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • clove@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Theu don’t verify emails and the CEO has even suggested we can use a random string. Also, you can pay with Bitcoin. No forced KYC anywhere along the way.

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    • capital@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      they’re for profit

      From my subscription cost, yes. This aligns my privacy goals with their need for income which is not the case for “free” advertising-supported products.

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      • LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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• jetsetdorito@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They have a system for detaching your account info from searches now

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• JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  help.kagi.com/kagi/privacy/privacy-pass.html

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