I don't think a blog named "iOSLife" belongs here. Apple is one of the worst offenders in terms of privacy violations.
this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2023
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I think the article appears biased because searxng appears to offer the same functionality as Kagi, in spite of being free, yet Kagi is shown to be the best in class for some reason? Also it doesn't touch on the critique that kagi having a login potentially aggregates all of your searches into one account that is stored by one company.
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Kagi user myself. Great experience, worth the $10.
Side note: Your posts feels a bit like self-promotion 🫥
Yeah, Kagi seems pretty cool so far.
Not trying to self-promote, just looking for feedback on my findings and to see if anyone has other opinions to share around the products
I paid for the $5 subscription with Monero and used an alias email at signup. I like it so far
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I don't see how it's self-promotion if there's no profit to be made. In my book, it's no different than someone making a text post here.
I think all of the "drama" in this thread could've been solved with me copy and pasting my words into a self post
I appreciate that you included sections of the relevant privacy policies. I like your approach.
Please run what you write through spell check. You misspelled: extremely, business, advertisers, educated, and default. The word October could be capitalized, but as part of a hypothetical search query, it could be lower case on purpose.
Lastly, Qwant is struck through in your last sentence. It's unclear if you chose that formatting because you don't recommend it (as stated earlier) or for some other reason.
Keep writing! We need more of this!
Oh yikes. Those are egregious spelling errors hahaha. Thank you for reading and the feedback!
Yes, I struckthrough Qwant since they are sending your IP to Microsoft with every search. :)
It might be worth throwing in something at the bottom of the page explaining why you struck it through.
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FYI that site is on the cbuijs list of malicious domains
ETA : improving(.) Duckduckgo (.) Com
You're saying ioslife.dev is on a list? I did a quick search on Kagi and didn't find anything. Could you share more info about what you're talking about? Thanks!
The list is called 'cbuijs Malicious Domains' according to my firewall logs.
You might want to ask them to take you off the list.
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This is clearly biased. Your points against SearXNG are weak. And you purposefully ignore the huge privacy implications of needing an account to do searches.
I don't think this is written by a bot, but I'd say it's either a camouflaged ad or a rather biased article.
Edit: To be clear. I do not care that a certain company has a good privacy policy. I want verifiable facts, not unverifiable claims. Their backend is proprietary, while SearXNG is free software. There's only one entity behind that company, which could be (or turn) malicious at any moment. Meanwhile, SearXNG is hosted by multiple individuals and organizations, you could even use a different instance each time, so it's impossible to corelate your search queries.
So yeah, this is a rather biased article towards a certain company.
Thanks for your feedback. My goal was just to look through the privacy policies with this, but you bring up a good point that that might not be a good experiment and could less to false assumptions. I do wonder if Kagi has had any this party analysis to back up their claims since it is not OSS.