It should actually be “Layer 3: Paid, ad-free, asbestos free, subscription-based search”. Come on. I don’t think it’s productive to make decisive and conspiratorial declarations on the future of Kagi search because they didn’t use the magic words you like. [ And since I know freediver is active here I want to state plainly that I would cancel immediately if there is so much as a hint of an ad in the Kagi results ;) ]

edit: h/t to https://xkcd.com/641