I guess we all kinda knew that, but it’s always nice to have a study backing your opinions.

  • Keith
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    710 months ago

    Kagi (although recent drama leaves me soured)

    • @ikidd@lemmy.world
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      610 months ago

      I don’t fathom paying to have your search history catalogued in correlation to your payment info. This will end as it always does, either hacked or enshittified.

      • Keith
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        10 months ago

        The fundamental difference is that Kagi is making money from having the better product, not from serving more/better ads.

      • KaynA
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        510 months ago

        Kagi has started using search results from Brave’s search index. The LGBT community disapproved of this because of past homophobic actions by Brave’s CEO Brendan Eich.

        • @ripcord@lemmy.world
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          310 months ago

          Oh, that. Yeah, I’m not personally worried that they used it very lightly as one of a dozen sources and then stopped.

          • Keith
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            310 months ago

            The problem was mainly their questionable response

          • @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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            210 months ago

            Fool me once…

            Twitter has a similar problem. The more the CEO injects personal politics into the function of the site, the less confidence people have that a new search won’t be fucked with. Whatever you might say about Google, Bing, and Yahoo, their owners have at least kept their politics closer to the chest.

        • @BobGnarley@lemm.ee
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          210 months ago

          Thats a terrible reason to not use something that works well though. I mean the founder or CEO of any major bank is probably a shit person with bad takes like racism but does it make their banking service any less useful?