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Kagi is one of the least trustworthy companies I've seen recently. I know it has fans, but it constantly talks out of both sides of its mouth.
Kagi does not give a solitary damn about privacy as the average person understands it.
Kagi lied in its emails.
"AI is mentioned zero times"
...is clearly incorrect.
There's quite a lot more to distrust about a company that wants to lock you into a filter bubble.
They promote their search engine but their users don't get to see ads. I don't know what's wrong about that. Every company advertises with its products. I don't see what's reprehensible about that.
They're right, anonymity and privacy are two different things. Since you have to pay to use Kagi, you're not anonymous. But they allegedly don't know what you as the user search for when using their search engine. So they're being honest here and how can honesty be bad here? Anyways, we're on privacy@lemmy.ml, not anonymity@lemmy.ml or whatever.
While I still give you this one, they're technically correct. The word "AI" isn't there but they mention AI features, haha. It's a bit debatable since Vlad said "kagi.com" - which doesn't mention AI or AI tools. Only when you go to the pricing page there are mentions of AI tools.
I don't think we have an argument except maybe on technicality, so I'll do my best to use your points as a springboard for further clarification/critique of Kagi and not of you.
What's wrong is Vlad had just said "That community is 100% responsible for Kagi's growth as a business through word of mouth (Kagi does no paid advertising)"
And he should be the first person to know that statement isn't correct.
The problem here is that nobody in this community will recommend a corporation that "may know everything about you but respect your privacy."
Maybe not the homepage, but the site itself is very explicit about AI being the point of their project. And if Kagi will change their statements about everything else on a dime, and have such poor views on privacy, why not also follow their own manifesto?
You can read their pro-AI manifesto on the Kagi.com domain right here.
You can read a critique of this manifesto and how it talks about you "volunteering" your data to search engines, and other creepy stuff, right here.