They don't show your history.
> the ad profile Google builds on you is probably more damaging to your privacy than a photo of the entire contents of your wallet.
I can take measures to prevent Google from linking together a full profile. It sucks that it's necessary, but once you log in it's effectively game over. And your payment info has enough stable identifiers that it's trivial to link you to pretty much anything else you've paid for.
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The core misconception here seems to be the idea that there is such a thing as a honest for-profit corporation.
> The core misconception here seems to be the idea that there is such a thing as a honest for-profit corporation.
And I would say there's degrees. Even if all companies eventually slouch into a google-like organization, at least you can jump on the bandwagon until that happens and find another when it does. And maybe none of the wagons are headed to a strict privacy, user controlled data, and free-software utopia, but maybe not all of them are headed to Gomorrah.
You are the one claiming that Kagi is somehow special, trustworthy, and immune to the same influences that drags down everyone else.
> I see lots of promises, but very little proof
Yet you trust google and any company that might do business with google? This view is some sort of mind game you're playing alone.
My point is that Kagi's business model requires more trust in Kagi than Google's requires in Google.