Is Kagy web browser worth it?

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• specialwall@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Personally, it’s the only search engine I haven’t wanted to get away from

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• mbirth@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m running a local SearXNG which still provides usable results. I don’t see the point in paying for what’s basically a smart phone book. If everything fails, I’m going full #oldweb and use #webrings or some of those retro lists.

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• Notamoosen@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m a fan. It took me a few weeks of properly rating (raising, lowering, and blocking) to get truly customized results. Once I did though, I found I’m able to research far faster than before. I’ve also become a fan of their AI assistant. It has multiple llm’s to choose from and is more private than using them directly.

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• socphoenix@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Some people like them, they do have at least some ties to a Russian company which is a no from me at the moment.

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  • specialwall@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Paying for access to Yandex APIs is a product of their goal to be the best search engine available. They pay for access to nearly every major search provider and wouldn’t want to lose access to Yandex results just because of the country they’re located in.

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    • EvenOdds@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think it’s valid to boycott Russian companies, or any companies that supports them. Justifying it to be the best search engine doesn’t necessarily make it right. And yet I still have a paid Kagi subscription, but I don’t blame people who don’t, and think their use of Yandex should be more obvious.

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• tal@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think that you submitted the wrong URL. The submitted URL just points to Kagi’s home page, not to an article talking about the Orion browser.

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  • fdrc_lm@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You’re 100% right, I corrected the title, thank you

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    • floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Your title still says “Kagy” instead of “Kagi”.

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    • tal@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh, okay, I didn’t realize that you were trying to just ask people here, rather than link to an article about Orion.

      Well, I use Kagi’s search engine. They basically do what I wish Google and YouTube and suchlike would do — just make their money by charging a fee and providing a service, rather than trying to harvest data and show ads. I use search more than any other service online, and there isn’t really a realistic way for me to run my own Web-spanning search engine. I don’t really make use of most of their add-on features (other than their “Fediverse Forums” thing that can search all Threadiverse hosts, which is helpful, and occasionally their Usenet search functionality).

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