Basically the title. There are other privacy focused+free search engines, such as duckduckgo, startpage and brave search. What makes Kagi worth the $10/month?

  • Sonalder@lemmy.ml
    8·
    12 days ago

    Why are they bastards ? I am using Orion for some of my web browsing which is a Kagi product.

      • PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz
        12·
        11 days ago

        TLDR:

        • Spent a third of their initial funding on buying a small clothing factory to give away free shirts to the first 20k subscribers (Noble act from them imo, but financially irresponsible to buy a factory for this)
        • Didn’t pay taxes in the first 2 years (Apparently under 1000 users they don’t need to do taxes or sm and haven’t expected 20k users)
        • CEO (Vlad) thinks AI can give you unbiased reviews
        • Author finds AI tools bullshit and Kagi is doing and planning a lot of AI related stuffs
        • CEO is very opinionated and thinks that difference in opinions are “misunderstandings”
        • CEO personally writes emails to unsubscribed people about why they have left
        • Doesn’t have GDPR cause CEO thinks email isn’t a personally identifiable information

        Probably I have forgot some stuff, but this is the gist of it for me.

        • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl
          4·
          11 days ago

          Also, from the same source - a dismissive attitude to privacy (which is kind of a big deal if all your searches are tied to a single account, usually paid by a KYC method).

        • sudoer777@lemmy.ml
          2·
          10 days ago

          The CEO has shitty stances on certain things but everything is basically a frontend to Google/Bing/Brave which are all also shitty so the entire search engine market is fucked from an ethical perspective

      • Libb@jlai.luEnglish
        4·
        11 days ago

        Thx for sharing. I do (happily) use Kagi as already stated in my other comment but I’m always willing to be more informed.

    • jaaaardvark@lemm.ee
      21·
      11 days ago

      They keep expanding their partnership with Yandex, which is a company tightly integrated with Kremlin