One of the things I like about Mullvad is that I can buy a voucher on Amazon, and use that to pay for the service with a high degree of anonymity. Is/will something like that be possible with Uruky?
Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites
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#162One of the things I like about Mullvad is that I can buy a voucher on Amazon, and use that to pay for the service with a high degree of anonymity. Is/will something like that be possible with Uruky?
I’m not aware of this, can you clarify? Technically anyone can top up an account on Uruky and give it away to someone else.
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#163I really like the idea and that it's eu-made a love it. A fee things I see with kagi which are useful and improvements: - Hire a UI/UX person NOW! My parents and gf like using google and kagi because are easy to use. - add the widgets like the football or the show the local store with the phone number asap. My gf is thinking about moving away from kagi because of this. - the quick ai response is extremely useful. - I…
Thank you for your suggestions and support! - Ouch. We get a lot of love for our UI/UX, which I guess just goes to show taste is personal. If you have any particular points of friction, we'd love to hear about them. - Only Serper allows for this, so we're very hesitant. If other providers allowed it, we could definitely consider it. - We won't have Generative AI, sorry. - Could you clarify? - Check out the interview…
> We won't have Generative AI, sorry.
You're taking a stance? In this economy?
This is a bug plus in my book, and it is, besides being Europe-based, the reason I've been donating to Vivaldi for the past 18 months. I signed up for Uruky just last week, but I sense I'll stick around for much longer. Please continue being awesome!
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I also don't use Kagi because of Yandex, and my reason is that it's a Russian company, owned by people close to the Russian government.
Kagi seems unfairly picked on here. Lots of people do business with Russia. Multiple EU countries import gas from Russia which, the UK just dropped sanctions on Russian oil, lots of countries do not have sanctions on Russia at all so buying things from those countries might involve money ending up going to Russia. On the other hand Kagi is an American company so is at the very least abiding by US sanctions.
It is maybe unconventional in a public discourse but I believe that it is completely fine for an individual human to "discriminate" anything multiple orders of magnitude more powerful, richer and more unaccountable to him/her than a human. For example - a billionaire, a corporation, a country, a block, an alliance, a military or mercenary unit and so on. Just because there are some other baddies around it is totally okay for an individual to boycott one of several selected baddies. Sure, it is a "discrimination" and it's fine. The power imbalance dictates that it is both ethical and logical thing to do.
It is especially logical to "discriminate" corporations which are not corrupt monopolies entwined with corrupt governments. Boycotting FAANG corpos is as pointless as it is impossible. The only reaction one may get from those is dead silence. Boycotting Kagi and publicly shaming them, may make them wake up and correct their misguided ways. For example, after years of nagging and shaming, DuckDuckGo has cut ties with Ruzzians. So that sometimes does work.
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#165Hi. A have a user report, after visiting the site it automatically switched to a language based on my system locale, but not on my UI language or keyboard preference. So it is possible to visit the site from some guest PC for example where locale would be something unfamiliar. And the language selector is down at the very bottom (I guarantee that my mom for example would never find it) it is plain text and it is in the currently set language. So for example if I will get a page set to Chinese or Korean or Hindi, I wouldn't even understand where language selector is, it would be a set of glyphs unrecognizable to me. Or vice versa, let's say an Indian person would get a cyrillic text.
I suggest moving language selector to the header of the page and adding some icons to it - flags or English encodings (EN/DE/CN/RU/IN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639_language_codes
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Agreed. The noise in tech circles often gets founders to conflate ten different things into a product that no longer makes sense. “Eu made alternative to Kagi”? Cool, we need European search engines, sign me up. “Privacy is such a priority we’re looking to accept cash by mail”? Okay, you’re never gonna build a serious competitor, never mind.
Yeah Mullvad that accept cash in the post are not a serious VPN provider at all, right.
You seem to not understand that a search engine and a VPN don't have the same audience, and certainly not the same needs for focus.
It's ok, we all have our flaws.
Re: Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites
#167Hi. A have a user report, after visiting the site it automatically switched to a language based on my system locale, but not on my UI language or keyboard preference. So it is possible to visit the site from some guest PC for example where locale would be something unfamiliar. And the language selector is down at the very bottom (I guarantee that my mom for example would never find it) it is plain text and it is in t…
Thanks for reporting this. Do you happen to know what your browser sends in the `Accept-Language` header?
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#168One of the things I like about Mullvad is that I can buy a voucher on Amazon, and use that to pay for the service with a high degree of anonymity. Is/will something like that be possible with Uruky?
I’m not aware of this, can you clarify? Technically anyone can top up an account on Uruky and give it away to someone else.
Like so, hopefully the link works for you:
The card arrives with a little lottery-ticket style scratchpad with I believe a 16 digit activation code underneath.
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It should be clear in the FAQ. All Europe-based. Our current search providers: - Mojeek - EUSP - Marginalia - Linkup - Serper (the only non-EU, being UK and proxying Google) - Uruky Site Search (our own index) - Pixabay (images) I'd be curious to hear about your Mullvad experience (feel free to email me).
Well Mullvad stopped providing port forwarding, which is necessary for good torrent support (especially if you use public torrents and you need ones that aren't seeded a lot). They also stopped supporting openvpn which I need. Wireguard only now. It's not enshittification in terms of ads etc but it is reduction of possibilities because they already make enough money on the people using the main features. But anyway I…
mullvad stopped providing port forwarding due to the abuse and the effects a single-digit percent of their users was having on the other 90+% of users.
not because they "already make enough money on the people using the main features" or "enshittification".
its kind of like the opposite of enshittification, actually, seeing how it made the service better for the majority of their users.
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Am I indirectly supporting Trump when I use DuckDuckGo?
I'll give you an introduction to Modern European Ethics™: If you do something in this world and this life - remember you normally have about 70 years - there is always some detail of what you're doing that is worthy of criticism, shunning, and shaming. Since everything in the world is connected, you can't avoid it. If however you do nothing in your life or with your life, then there is also nothing which you can be c…
It's not really a thing. We all know flying is a really bad thing and still the skies are full of planes also in Europe. It's just an extra factor to take into account. Like, when you can choose another solution that does not have this factor.
It's not about moral superiority, just about awareness of the choices we make. I have several friends that don't do the "Bali" summer holiday thing anymore even though they would like to and can afford it. Because Greece is also fun and wastes a lot of less fuel.
I like this better than the current American approach of: "We know it's bad for the environment so we will do it as much as possible to extract more profit than others before the world becomes uninhabitable. Then we will have WON!"