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Re: Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites

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There is no password, just like Mullvad. You should "protect" your account number like you would a password, but also, you can just discard it and change to another one in a month, for example.

Thanks for your answer! Makes me curious how do you defend against people simply bruteforcing or guessing the account numbers.

Rate limiting when it's invalid (and high entropy to generate new ones)! It's in the FAQ :)

Re: Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites

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It is a bit hard to evaluate the potential when you need to top up and do a captcha just for evaluation purposes. The barrier of entry is quite high.

To be clear, you don't need to top up (only click the link or try a search) _and_ do the captcha. You can _either_ top up for a month, _or_ do the proof-of-work captcha (should just be clicking a checkbox and giving it a few seconds). The reason for the higher barrier of entry is bots/abuse. Up until a few weeks ago we didn't even have the captcha option. Without any kind of identification, it's impossible to prevent…

This search: https://uruky.com/search?il=en&it=system&q=php+array+search Produced the same results for the first 2 items, only that one is separated with dash '-' and the other with underscore '_' in the result slug. Perhaps that can be normalized.

Re: Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites

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Do you have Privacy Pass or some other type of privacy-preserving credentials functinoality?

Can you expand on the benefits of that when there is no personal information (not even an email or payment ID after 14 days) associated with an account?

I was just assuming this will be a subscription service like Kagi.

Re: Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites

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Not for bitcoin, but for monero, which is more requested than bitcoin.

Why do you need a third party?

It's in the FAQ. Legal limitations.

Re: Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites

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Can you expand on the benefits of that when there is no personal information (not even an email or payment ID after 14 days) associated with an account?

I was just assuming this will be a subscription service like Kagi.

Gotcha.

Re: Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites

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Good point. We have never had any reports of customers legitimately hitting these, but we can probably loosen them up a bit.

I see this has already been updated in the FAQ . Thanks!

Thank you for the suggestion!

Re: Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites

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I see. We'll look into considering doing both, then. PolyForm Shield for the current code, with BUSL to transition into AGPLv3 after 2 or 3 years. Do you think that would work well?

Yeah. That would be great!

Thanks, will double-check with our lawyers on that, but it seems that'll be possible and the way to go!

Re: Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites

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Thanks, I see. You're still giving Amazon and Mullvad your payment information, so unless you're purchasing it for someone else, I'm failing to see the advantage? Again, that's something you can already do with Uruky as well.

The advantage is that it makes it impossible for Mullvad or Amazon to associate my online payment with the activation code on the card, and by extension my Mullvad account.

Gotcha. We're now building vouchers for ProxyStore to sell them.

Re: Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites

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Thanks! I have reached out over a week ago to them via email and Signal, to crickets. Let me know if you know why or how to reach them, or alternatives.

Hmm, they responded to me on Signal quickly at one point so unsure.

Thanks. They did respond after a few days, we're in touch with them now and will try to run a trial selling Uruky vouchers there!
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