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The small thing that annoys me is that I am 100% sure somebody at Apple has a directive: never allow Kagi search integration.

I am truly baffled (and annoyed) about this fact.

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On iOS, there is an app called xSearch that integrates into Safari and sneakily hacks around the limited search engine options by watching your browsing history for queries to the search engine you've selected in Safari, then immediately rewriting the URL and navigating to the search engine you actually want.

Obviously this has security implications, but I don't ordinarily search for anything sketchy on my iPhone so I'm personally not too worried about it.

No need for a third party app. Kagi itself has an extension to intercept queries sent to Google and redirecting them on their website.

Then don't buy Apple!

There's more to device quality than whether a monkey can operate it and looks shiny.

I know right. It’s simple. Google pays them over a billion dollars and Kagi doesn’t.

However, Apple does allow DDG, Ecosia, and Bing. They just don’t allow Brave or Kagi.

Easily fixed by installing Brave Browser.

Or a bunch of other browsers. Nothing special about brave.

Just not very practical on iOS or iPad

I get annoyed at Whatsapp and see it as a case for antitrust but apparently Google is just as guilty of this

Using third-party browsers on iOS isn’t nearly as annoying as it was a few years ago. I had been driven to switch back to Safari a few years ago after trying to make a go of it. But last year I switched back to a third-party default browser and have been happy.

Third-party keyboards, still not usable but browsers are basically ok.

3rd party browsers don't actually exist. iOS Chrome is just V8 bolted onto Webkit/Safari. Chromium is not part of it.

The point was that in a third party browser you can usually set any search provider, not which rendering engine they use.

> Third-party keyboards, still not usable but browsers are basically ok.

The one third-party keyboard that seems to work is the one from Google, if you want a better experience than Apple’s.

You could always choose to use software that respects the user's freedom.

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