If Kagi stopped using Yandex, or somehow allowed accounts to configure a way so that their funds do not go to Yandex (unsure if this is even possible to split accounts this way) then I would sign back up immediately.
Kagi is awesome. I appreciate the Yandex results. I'm not a big fan of Russia.
Right, but there's lots of companies in the world. Lots more than there are tyrannical regimes. Lots more than there are total regimes! We're not individually obligated to support each of them, when they financially support things we find abhorrent.
But no, I don't like the Chinese government either.
Maybe they have to do it to survive, who knows, but you don't have to use their services or products that resell their services.
Holding and adhering to personal principles is the opposite of weak. You might disagree with that person's decision, but that does not make them (or their decision) weak.
> The job of a search engine is to produce the most relevant search results, period. Kagi excels at this precisely because we remain unimpressed by world politics. The moment 'politics' becomes a factor in search results is the moment I stop working on a search engine.
> We set out to fix search, not the world.
"Kagi has been using yandex search api since 2019, long before current geopolitical tensions"
The war in Ukraine has been ongoing since 2014.
"We understand these are deeply personal issues for many. As someone who was a refugee of two wars, I'm not indifferent to human suffering."
He is Serbian.
Regardless, the option to exclude Yandex (and other search engines) results has been suggested here: https://kagifeedback.org/d/4727-option-to-choose-or-exclude-...
I recommend https://dzygaspaw.com personally, but there are many good crowdfunding organizers.
I use DDG mostly but if I need to actually search the web I go to Yandex (I don't have Kagi... at least not yet). I don't know of another place that can do that.
Like, is there a viable alternative for Kagi?
It has brought genocide, concentration camps and forced starvation back into the Overton window for state actors pursuing security objectives. This should terrify everyone, whether inside Europe or not.
In the UK, simply expressing support for a protest group is now imprisonable under anti-terror legislation. Germany is dishing out fines and deportations for as little as holding up signs.
Post-war Europe is ostensibly built on rules and norms around human rights, democracy, and the rule of law. The behaviour of the state of Israel, and our governments' craven support for it, is causing rapid democratic backsliding and laying the groundwork for our next round of atrocities.
Whatever one's moral perspective, or position on the middle east, this concerns everyone.
What a waste of time this conversation is.
There isn't really an escape from helping despotic, genocidal regimes.