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Kagi isn't free
The search problem is largely due to not being the actual customer.
Look at me. I’m the customer now.
If I use ublock or whoogle I may not be customer. But the customer wont get anything from me anyway.
And you won't get good search results in exchange.
Same results as any other metasearch engine, like kagi.
Neither is beer
If it's free then you're the product
And if you're the product then there's an interest to keep you on the site and show you ads which works best if the first result isn't the correct one and you need to scroll or even go to page two
It's literally the reason why Google got so much worse that they wanted to show more ads to users which wouldn't work if the best result is always the first
I'm a shitty product because I block any ad that tries to display on my browser.
If you think paying means you aren't still the product, I have news for you.
I don't need my search history tied directly to a means of payment, and not because I search for illicit stuff, but because I don't need an advertising profile built on me that is absolutely tied to me now, because I paid for it.
If Kagi doesn't turn out to be selling that info in a year or two, I'll eat a bug.
Exactly. A paid search engine is a privacy nightmare, and you have zero guarantees that they don't monetize you one way or another in addition to the subscription fee.
You want to compare the hard evidence on abuse between paid search engines and unpaid search engines? I'm happy to work through that data with you.
I pay anonymously through crypto accounts. It's easy and I can open new Kagi accounts if I want. I'm saving a beetle for you.