Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option.
ehballah@lemmy.ca 5 weeks agoFeel 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.
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
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.
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.
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
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
douglasg14b@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
This is the kind of conversation, healthy, back and forth, and conceding instead of doubling down as we learn more that I wish was more common on the internet these days.
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?
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
shortrounddev@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Read my comment again, because I neither accused you of anything nor reduced your argument. Your brain is in fight mode
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.
capital@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
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.
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
capital@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Many blessings on you and your family