Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option.
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 11 months agoThis 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.
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
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.
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?
Read my comment again, because I neither accused you of anything nor reduced your argument. Your brain is in fight mode
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.
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.
Many blessings on you and your family
betternotbigger@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And if it changes, I will leave and stop paying. They are a user centric model. They thrive because of paying users.