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Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by hresvelgr »

AussieWog93 wrote: post #370
BoppreH wrote: post #153

Three years ago, I migrated from Gmail to FastMail because I was afraid of losing access to my digital life on Google's whim. Two years ago, I found out that my favorite Youtube creators were all on Nebula. One year ago, I switched my phone to LineageOS to get security updates a little longer. A month ago, I installed OpenStreetMaps because Google Maps got really bad at showing points-of-interest. And today, Kagi rem…

>It feels really nice using products that respect me, as opposed to services that are actively hostile because of advertisers. Hot take, but IMO Windows has far more respect for the user than Linux does. Everything is far more QA'd (and designed to be QA-able) and at least tries to minimise user frustration. There are exceptions to this, like "suggestions" in the Start menu, but outside of this it's designed in a use…

> Hot take, but IMO Windows has far more respect for the user than Linux does.

You need to be more specific about what desktop Linux flavours aren't holding up in your eyes because window managers like XFCE and Cinnamon are bulletproof as far as I'm concerned and I've never had issues with them. Especially XFCE.

> there's no single dominant standard.

This is a common criticism and I totally get you here. Not knowing what's going to work for you is annoying and truthfully, no one really wants to shop around for window managers and the only reason I know what's good in the first place is because I spent weeks in my youth test driving everything available, something I no longer have the energy for.

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by FpUser »

MatthiasPortzel wrote: post #380
FpUser wrote: post #328

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just did exactly this search on Google. The first result was this -[0] which is exactly spot on. Not sure if it is because I use Brave browser which also blocks ads on websites. [0] - https://tecadmin.net/get-current-date-time-javascript/#:~:te...

You clearly use an ad blocker. That page is over 50% ads.

Well I did not see any thanks to Brave and the content was spot on and that is all that really matters to me

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by poutinepapi »

Sign me the fuck up!

Kagi is basically now my daily use search engine apart from Startpage.

The bangs feature, where you can use a quick command to search popular sites like Wikipedia, reddit, Youtube, etc is great, and doesn't count towards your search limit.

And I'm really looking forward to using the Universal Summarizer feature which is included with these new $10 rate.

Keep up the great work lads & lasses!

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by dade_ »

AussieWog93 wrote: post #370
BoppreH wrote: post #153

Three years ago, I migrated from Gmail to FastMail because I was afraid of losing access to my digital life on Google's whim. Two years ago, I found out that my favorite Youtube creators were all on Nebula. One year ago, I switched my phone to LineageOS to get security updates a little longer. A month ago, I installed OpenStreetMaps because Google Maps got really bad at showing points-of-interest. And today, Kagi rem…

>It feels really nice using products that respect me, as opposed to services that are actively hostile because of advertisers. Hot take, but IMO Windows has far more respect for the user than Linux does. Everything is far more QA'd (and designed to be QA-able) and at least tries to minimise user frustration. There are exceptions to this, like "suggestions" in the Start menu, but outside of this it's designed in a use…

Windows has never respected users. Not in version 3.0, and not today in 11. Millennium Edition and Vista were particularly egregious, and 11 took it to a brave new world.

There is no such thing as a single Linux experience, each distribution targets different personas and goals.

If you want a curated Linux desktop experience, then try Elementary OS. It is very aligned to a Mac experience.

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by inktype »

Kagi says that it does not link private information and searches. I'm really struggling to see how that's possible when you need to log in to search. Magic?

The anonymous payment options are cumbersome. Why not do something like Mullvad with scratch-off vouchers sold on Amazon?

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by hresvelgr »

kyruzic wrote: post #387
AussieWog93 wrote: post #370

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>It feels really nice using products that respect me, as opposed to services that are actively hostile because of advertisers. Hot take, but IMO Windows has far more respect for the user than Linux does. Everything is far more QA'd (and designed to be QA-able) and at least tries to minimise user frustration. There are exceptions to this, like "suggestions" in the Start menu, but outside of this it's designed in a use…

None of what you said is true. Use gnome and a popular distribution. Everything will just work out of the box.

Eh, honestly with GNOME ymmv. Many API breakages, most recently with extensions in version 45. It's also not very light. GNOME's UX is also quite opinionated but some people like that.

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by whs »

carlosjobim wrote: post #356
freediver wrote: post #305

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think it can. What would the financial motive be? With Google it is more ads with Adsense on their crappy SEO site. With Kagi, we actively downrank such sites out of existance.

SEO also has the purpose to rank your website high so that you can sell your products. A huge part of the internet has nothing to do with ads, but businesses selling their products and services

I think if they want to sell to me and ads&trackers harm their SEO, it'd at least make the internet a little bit more private.

That or it'll be a cat and mouse chase like cname cloaking/proxying rendering those harder to statically detect.

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by jxi »

AussieWog93 wrote: post #370
BoppreH wrote: post #153

Three years ago, I migrated from Gmail to FastMail because I was afraid of losing access to my digital life on Google's whim. Two years ago, I found out that my favorite Youtube creators were all on Nebula. One year ago, I switched my phone to LineageOS to get security updates a little longer. A month ago, I installed OpenStreetMaps because Google Maps got really bad at showing points-of-interest. And today, Kagi rem…

>It feels really nice using products that respect me, as opposed to services that are actively hostile because of advertisers. Hot take, but IMO Windows has far more respect for the user than Linux does. Everything is far more QA'd (and designed to be QA-able) and at least tries to minimise user frustration. There are exceptions to this, like "suggestions" in the Start menu, but outside of this it's designed in a use…

There's more ads on a clean install of Windows than most streets of New York City. Why does a professional OS come with Candy Crush installed by default?

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by dylan604 »

kelnos wrote: post #345
dylan604 wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't that the same thing said about Lotto/scratch-offs/etc?

It's complicated. I go to Vegas and gamble sometimes, which is not all that different. I don't gamble because I expect to win money; I gamble because the experience (especially with more social games like craps) is fun to me, even when I lose. Certainly it's not fun to everyone, but roller coasters aren't fun to everyone either, and that's fine. If you only gamble or play the lottery because you genuinely think you h…

Look at the numbers of the people playing lotto/scratch-offs. Look at where they are being sold. These are targeted at a specific group of people. You can try to whitewash it all you want, but it only makes you look naive. Especially that last sentence of yours. I'm really struggling to not get banned for commenting to this, but I'd suggest taking some rose tinted glasses off and taking a real look at this issue.
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