Where's the source code for their browser?
Such move of not publishing it is almost bizarre for such a pro-privacy company.
They are a would-be AI company who discovered paid search was a viable way to self-fund.
If you ask them what guarantees you have that they won't someday decide to sell your search history, their response will be "well, it doesn't make financial sense for us to do so. Now drop it" and ban you.
Here's a blog post someone wrote about this with examples: https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html
Can you provide any evidence of them having done this? As a paying Kagi subscriber, I am surely interested in knowing more.
> and ban you
I was wrong about the banning; I misremembered that.
> I was wrong about the banning; I misremembered that.
Sort of a big thing to accuse them of and then realize you just "misremembered". At a min you could edit your earlier comment to note this.
That is to say, Kagi's stance is financial, not out of actually valuing privacy. Usually when companies are in this situation, it winds up being that they care more about appearances than reality, and will do what they think they can get away with. It's a wholly untrustworthy position for them to be in and for the CEO to present it otherwise decreases my confidence that he'll do the right thing.
> Sort of a big thing to accuse them of and then realize you just "misremembered". At a min you could edit your earlier comment to note this.
HN comments are not able to be edited (or deleted) after a somewhat brief period of time, which had already passed before I realized my error. The best I can do is correct myself in a followup comment, which is what I did.
I did have a former job that would pay for Kagi for employees and I used Kagi for well over a year via that. When I left the job I went back to DDG to see if I would notice a quality drop, and I did not, so I decided not to pay for a personal account.