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I've been using Kagi for a while. I'm totally on board with springing $10/mo for good search. The biggest thing that worries me about Kagi is that, in order to

I've been using Kagi for a while. I'm totally on board with springing $10/mo for good search. The biggest thing that worries me about Kagi is that, in order to be using it and paying for it, I have to log in, across all my devices. I'm literally collaborating on the process of someone doing much, much finer-grained and definitive tracking than other search engines currently do. While Kagi assure me they aren't putting all this information together... I am giving it to them, and that gives me pause.

Melting_Harps 4y ago
> I've been using Kagi for a while. I'm totally on board with springing $10/mo for good search. If privacy is the concern, why not just use a VPN and use Google? Doesn't this achieve the same end, but with a VPN you have far more usecases than just search? I mean, if you really wanted to take things to the extreme you'd run TOR or use Tails, right? It's not the cost that makes me question this, I pay for a VPN after all, but what does Kagi do to justify itself beyond the 'it's better than google?'
- ezekg 4y ago
  Read up on Kagi a bit. You can tailor your results to you. For example, I can rank-adjust any domain and those adjustments are applied to any future searches. I can even block specific domains (like those Stack Overflow clones and the SEO spam sites that plague Google results).
  - Melting_Harps 4y ago
    So, a curated Internet? I guess that seems reasonable, filters were always a thing with adblockers, I guess this allows for a all inclusive turn key experience.
- dangerface 4y ago
  I use a vpn but im logged into gmail and youtube so that kind of defeats the whole vpn thing. Chrome logs itself in if I login to gmail or youtube. There are pretty obvious solutions, don't use chrome use opsec, but google has a lot of power to de-anonymise me and I just want to surf the net without big brother.
PascLeRasc 4y ago
You can simply pay $10/month/device to have separate accounts. Privacy is worth it!

Melting_Harps 4y ago

> I've been using Kagi for a while. I'm totally on board with springing $10/mo for good search. If privacy is the concern, why not just use a VPN and use Google? Doesn't this achieve the same end, but with a VPN you have far more usecases than just search? I mean, if you really wanted to take things to the extreme you'd run TOR or use Tails, right? It's not the cost that makes me question this, I pay for a VPN after all, but what does Kagi do to justify itself beyond the 'it's better than google?'

ezekg 4y ago
Read up on Kagi a bit. You can tailor your results to you. For example, I can rank-adjust any domain and those adjustments are applied to any future searches. I can even block specific domains (like those Stack Overflow clones and the SEO spam sites that plague Google results).
- Melting_Harps 4y ago
  So, a curated Internet? I guess that seems reasonable, filters were always a thing with adblockers, I guess this allows for a all inclusive turn key experience.
dangerface 4y ago
I use a vpn but im logged into gmail and youtube so that kind of defeats the whole vpn thing. Chrome logs itself in if I login to gmail or youtube. There are pretty obvious solutions, don't use chrome use opsec, but google has a lot of power to de-anonymise me and I just want to surf the net without big brother.

PascLeRasc 4y ago

You can simply pay $10/month/device to have separate accounts. Privacy is worth it!