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Thoughts on Kagi? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by wavydotdot@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I've been using this search engine and I have to say I'm absolutely in love with it.

Search results are great, Google level even. Can't tell you how happy I am after trying multiple privacy oriented engines and always feeling underwhelmed with them.

Have you tried it? What are your thoughts on it?

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[–] leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's ridiculously expensive. It's not private if you have to link your searches to a paid account and none of those payment providers are private. They don't seem to have open sourced any of their key functionality, meaning you have to trust them to not be collecting your activity data.

I spent a long time getting rid of software and using services that I either no longer trusted or was unable to make an informed choice due to their lack of open source code and I'm not going to take a retrograde step now. And that's without the issue with their choice (a continued choice I believe) to use Brave results, a company I'm personally not prepared to support.

[–] PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

If they don't cache your search history to your identity, which they claim they don't, then I'm not sure why that's a problem.

[–] leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

Because claiming they don't is not the same as being able to verify they don't by making their code open source.