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Cake day: September 17th, 2023

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  • That’s absolutely true. The problem is that, to make use of VPN services, it’s required to have an account or other identifier.

    But that’s no true for search engines. If I wanted to, I could make completely anonymous searches using SearXNG or DDG from different IPs and they would not have any way to correlate the search queries.

    That’s not true with Kagi and it’s a completely unnecessary privacy risk you’re taking when using it.


  • copypasting the other comment I made in this thread:

    and am I supposed to believe such a bold claim? the only reason they give is “trust me, bro. I pinky promise I’m not logging anything”.

    You have one account, every search query you make is associated with that account. And even if they aren’t selling that ultra sensitive data, I’m sure they are keeping logs to prevent abuse and fix bugs which could be used when a third party gains access to their servers (malicious actors, law enforcement, etc).

    And that’s assuming that Kagi is not mining and or selling any data themselves, which is a bold assumption given how little we know about their proprietary product. If at least they published the source code, but no. I’m supposed to trust a proprietary black box which could potentially be linking every search query back to me.


  • and am I supposed to believe such a bold claim? the only reason they give is “trust me, bro. I pinky promise I’m not logging anything”.

    You have one account, every search query you make is associated with that account. And even if they aren’t selling that ultra sensitive data, I’m sure they are keeping logs to prevent abuse and fix bugs which could be used when a third party gains access to their servers (malicious actors, law enforcement, etc).

    And that’s assuming that Kagi is not mining and or selling any data themselves, which is a bold assumption given how little we know about their proprietary product. If at least they published the source code, but no. I’m supposed to trust a proprietary black box which could potentially be linking every search query back to me.










  • As a Mexican, you are. And there’s nothing wrong with that. It’s not a racist term. It’s just like calling someone from France an European. Or someone from South Korea an asian.

    The French guy will probably have nothing in common with a swedish, yet they happen to be both European, just like a Japanese will have a totally different culture than a Mongol, yet they are asians.

    You can of course tell people to stop calling you a latino if you want to. However society automatically puts labels on people and they will call you whatever they want. If I were you, I’d just stop giving it any importance.







  • I didn’t know this one, and after looking through their website, I can’t trust them at all.

    Dev’s email is gmail. First red flag. And their social media profile are Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Not to mention that all I can read about their “protocol” is shitty marketing speak. There’s no technical whitepaper. And there’s no code. It seems to be proprietary software which is enough reason to run away from it. Together with the rest of things, it looks like either it’s a honeypot or (more probably) a fake privacy initiative trying to grab some money/data from non technical users.


  • Briar and GNU Jami are the best privacy friendly P2P messengers. I think they have MacOS support but not sure.

    SimpleX Chat, although not P2P, uses servers as relays and they get virtually not data from you. You can even switch relays daily or host your own. Depending on your use case, it could be useful since IMO it works better than P2P messengers (due to the limitations of P2P)