I paid for a month of kagi with lightning, I'm extremely impressed so far. I wouldn't buy their Orion browser though, it's a closed source browser.
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The different Lenses available with search are cool, especially Small Web.
They pinky promise 'We will be good stewards of any personal information you share with us. We do not log or associate searches with an account.'
How is that much better than trusting a closed source browser?
Its laughable that a search engine requires personal data about you before you can use it. I'm sure it works well, but then again so does gmail.
It's like a VPN, you have to trust someone in the end.
So why don't you trust the Orion browser?
Search is different from software because every search is an API request that leaves your machine.
Whatever happened to 'Don't trust, verify' that used to be the rallying cry of open source/ privacy advocates.
It's a fundamental problem with search, they will always know what you're searching and you can't verify the nonexistence of knowledge. Stop trying to imply that I don't care about privacy you fucking tool
What do you use for search? Duck duck go? Lol
I'd rather do a private (tor or vpn) not logged in search on google/duckgo than a non private registered search anywhere else.
Feel free to trust Kagi not to use your data or profile yoy, I see no reason why you would trust that more than duckduckgo.
Duck duck go isn't as private as people think, but it's probably the best in terms of privacy/anonymity.