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Is anyone paying for Kagi, the search engine? What is your experience with it? (kagi.com)
submitted 2 days ago by Yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Kagi is a subscription-based search engine that argues that paying for search is a reasonable thing to do in order to avoid ads and companies selling your information. They also have lenses, e.g. for searching the fediverse specifically. Anyone that wants to share their experience of using Kagi?

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[–] spectrums_coherence@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I love it, I use it quite a bit, and it get shit done. The web is boring again, instead of all the flashy shopping banners, I just search, done, and leave.

Their LLM is opt-in and on demand. Your search never triggers LLM by default, and you will need to add a question mark after it. This feature can of course, be turned off.

The privacy aspect is honestly a bit lacking besides "trust me bro", they have this great privacy pass extension, but it disables all setting, because it can be used to personally identify you if you have complex page rank preference. I am okay to not have extensive settings but "open in new tab" and safe search settings would be nice to have :( plus, it also doesn't work on firefox for android.

[–] gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I'm pretty sure mine opens everything in new tabs and it definitely works in Firefox on Android as that's how I use it on my phone.

Otherwise, spot on.

[–] spectrums_coherence@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago

Are you using the "privacy pass" extension? I cannot find it in the FF extension library :( The only one avaliable seems to be kagi search.