I try not to buy from US companies these days, but Kagi is really so good that I make an exception here, despite the US government getting some of my money.
The EU is still buying billions of dollars of fossil fuels and other resources from Russia.[0]
Nefarious actions by others shouldn't justify your own. We can do better.
It's a matter of scale. Objectively, yandex is a great resource, and Kagi's results would be degraded without it. Pennies per user go to them. The sum of the entire money that has ever transferred from Kagi to yandex is what? 30 seconds of EU oil and gas purchases?
In short: pick smart battles.
So Yandex is one of their data sources? Is that allowed under new sanctions?
also duckduckgo use(d) yandex. not many alternatives in this space
I use duckduckgo and live in a neighboring country, so I know Russian well (thanks, imperialism) and have to search things in it from time to time. It's still good at those queries, so this is just an excuse.
they used yandex up until 2022, and now they use bing and other