“Should we not be buying VW, BMW, Siemens and Bayer technology and products today because they participated in holocaust and directly collaborated with Hitler?” – CEO of Kagi when given feedback re: Brave partnership

  • @hydroptic
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    286 months ago

    Ah fuck, I’ve been using Kagi but of course their CEO is a reich-wing asshat.

    Anybody know of any other options? I’m not going back to Google.

      • @hydroptic
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        16 months ago

        Are you self-hosting or using a public instance?

        • ara
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          116 months ago

          It’s much better is you use a public instance as your results will be harder to be tracked: https://searx.space/ choice your favorite one here

      • @hydroptic
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        16 months ago

        I’ve heard some random grumblings about them, maybe related to their funding model? Can’t remember any specifics about this though.

        What I liked about Kagi is that it’s a subscription service, so you know up front that they likely won’t be incentivized to sell your data or fuck up your results to survive

    • @flora_explora@beehaw.org
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      36 months ago

      Maybe not too helpful, but I’ve been using startpage for years now and it still seems like the best option for me. It is google-based but at least private.

      • @hydroptic
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        6 months ago

        I’d like to specifically avoid using straight-up Google as a source, proxied or not. Most of the smaller engines do seem to use Google for at least a part of their results, but for me that’s preferable to having to completely rely on it since the results are mostly not very good