Well this is legit. I recently cancelled my kagi subscription for privacy reasons. This might make me reconsider. Is anyone here with access willing to test it out and report back?
this post was submitted on 13 Feb 2025
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I have it; it works (even in private browsing windows so long as you visit the site logged in, in a non-private browsing window first).
Awesome. Also be sure to use a vpn and and extension to randomize your browser fingerprint!
The extension itself is open source and per them (I haven't verified on my own) actually takes steps to combat the browser fingerprint problem; so I think it's really just the VPN side of things that most people need to worry about (at least from the perspective of disassociating their search history and the sites they visit).
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What is wrong with that comment? Also he is not an engineer, so hopefully he simply didn't touch the implementation, nor design it, since they had to implement a public standard (although new).
They also opensourced their implementation, maybe you can go and review it.
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Tbh, I understood that just as a way to explain the difference between knowing who you are and what you do. I don't think there was any explicit parallel between company and family. In fact in general I would say the message is pretty clear, they are them and customers are customers.
(BTW, to be picky, neither is privacy. Privacy is not lack of information, privacy is information only accessed by authorized parties. A service that collects data and uses it only for the purpose you agree with (not formally in the sense of 300 pages, really) is still private.)
The rest is very opinable stuff, you do you.
Edit: BTW asking why a feature is important is not paternalistic, and it is done on basically every post there. And why wouldn't it be? If they need to decide to invest their limited resources they should know why customers want something, people ask all kind of stuff.
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Yeah, I read that blog some time ago, and I disagree with a lot of it. Either way, I find kagi to be very transparent, and to be honest they "telling you" in non-legal conversation means nothing (I.e. Vlad answering "we use X, Y, Z"). This is why I care about facts and about legal documents. The privacy policy is what they will be held accountable for and that is what I take as a reference, for example.
Similarly I agree about this feature. This is just a way to walk the walk, and to be really on the forefront on privacy.
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I mean his phrasing could have been better but he is right that privacy and anonymity are different.
Honestly we need something like the Taler payment system
I'm not sure if you do given the account being disassociated from the search... Your bank could know you pay for Kagi, but that doesn't mean anyone knows what you search.
One question ? Do we have an OpenSource community on Lemmy.World ?