They lost my faith when they partnered with brave
Nah the Brave thing got spun up a bit. Kagi just wanted the extra search index data, which isn't even originally from Brave - they acquired it from Cliqz.
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#43Subsequently: https://hackers.town/@lori/112255132348604770
This definitely needs more eyeballs. What a gross person Vlad is being.
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#44I use Kagi and will continue to do so until it no longer suits my needs. Frankly, it's still the best search engine. I temporarily subscribed to the AI tier and found the expert assistant genuinely useful. The t-shirt thing is inexplicable.
Yeah, the AI is good (too expensive IMO) - it's really nice being able to choose between the best models from all the providers.
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#45The real lesson here is that as a founder, don't spend too much time discussing with your users on discord.
Gathering feedback good. But getting involved in philosophical discussion or how to run the company looks like a bad idea.
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#46> Oh and they own a t-shirt factory.
Maybe I'm being pedantic but Kagi doesn't own a T-shirt factory and presenting it as such is a bad faith argument that does make me question the author. They very clearly point out that they worked with a print shop in Serbia to make the shirts.
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#47I've read the first third of the article and I didn't get what's the author's problem with Kagi. What do they care how many employees Kagi has or how much they spend on t-shirts. Then I scrolled through the rest of it and read the very last screenshot. That one looks pretty bad. > people who really need anonymity are very rare. probably less than a 100 in the entire world. definitely not typical Kagi users > unless t…
he should run his discord posts through a LLM for an unbiased summary of who he is as a person.
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#48Aaand, trying to delete your account you get: Error: Server Error The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request. Please try again in 30 seconds.
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#50To any of this, so what? As long as Kagi makes a good product, and they do, I'll keep paying. As for privacy, my main goal is to protect myself from advertising, which Kagi does excellently.