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Yandex is only for image search. Implementing a "I don't want to fund Yandex" option would solve the problem for customers trying not to fund this war. This would even lower the cost of the user's actions. Not doing so is a strong take.
EU countries are also funding the war. Which EU-hosted services could we make optional in Kagi, if any?
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Yandex is especially tightly coupled to the Kremlin from what I've gathered. It seems less like supporting some American indie game development studio and more like supporting Palantir.
Good thing we have Kagi in the middle to firewall it from us, then. It does genuinely return better results for westerners due to not being subject to western censorship. I assume Kagi is smart enough to, say, down-rank or ignore Yandex results when the search is about Ukraine
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The US invaded Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam, Syria, Latin America etc. The list is too long. So here's a link showing the list of invasions, bombings, and CIA-backed regime-change operations in other countries: https://www.davemanuel.com/us-military-interventions-invasio... The estimates are that the US has killed between 20 and 30 million people after WWII. And these are just direct kills. The figure is much higher if…
Yes, I know, didn't you read the "Well there are millions of European trying to avoid US tech. It's hard. A lot harder than Russian tech." sentence above ? You're comparing a war currently being played by Russia, destroying their own country by the way, to past wars. I'm not saying the US didn't trigger wars and their casualties. It's of course true.
During the past year and a half, the US has bombed Iran, Venezuela, Iraq, Yemen and Mexico. It has provided free bombs to a country that has been bombing Palestine (genocide), Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Iran.
It has kidnapped the leader of a country and assassinated the leader of another country.
It has pirated all oil shipments to Cuba, causing a severe crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_United_States_fuel_blocka...
If a majority of users switch to ad-powered free tiers, a majority of users will see well-written, targeted advice that is ads (lies!) in disguise. This is a horrible future to consider. The more I think about it, the more I come to the conclusion that a society that bans ads is a healthier, more robust society, and I am not alone. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43595269
The cost of LLM inference is orders of magnitude more than the typical ad CPM. Not even "native ads" embedded in LLM output can offset the difference.
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"A billion people use the ChatGPT" lol uh source? even if you generously count my dad trying it out once out of curiosity in response to the news or w/e that doesn't seem true.
1. Open AI reported 900M+ weekly active users in February. [0] 2. Consistently ranks as the 5th most visited site. 5B+ visits last month. Only Google, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram rank higher. [1] [0] https://openai.com/index/scaling-ai-for-everyone/ [1] https://www.semrush.com/trending-websites/global/all
900M active users per week, but less than 6B visits in a month. Those users don't seem very active.
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So it's ok if they invade far-away countries, napalm bomb them leading to millions of casualties, but not ok to invade neighboring countries? The US is responsible for far more pain and suffering in my nock of the world, so it's funny when Americans act like they have some sort of moral high ground.
Whoa! You don't know where they are from. Given time zones, it's likely they are from Europe
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Well there are millions of European trying to avoid US tech. It's hard. A lot harder than Russian tech. As for the comparison, I don't think it's fair. The US has not yet invaded its neighbor, Canada, leading to millions of deaths and heavy casualties. Let's not adopt your binary view on this matter.
> As for the comparison, I don't think it's fair. The US has not yet invaded its neighbor, Canada, leading to millions of deaths and heavy casualties. Let's not adopt your binary view on this matter. No, just bombed, invaded, overthrew governments, etc in dozens of countries all around the world...
Is Kagi still using Russian government owned tech (Yandex) that censors informations about the illegal Ukraine war crimes ? If so, even if I do agree with your claims about the need to avoid ads so that the user is not the product, I believe there's a double standard in action here. I really liked the product before having to cancel my subscription for this reason. Now I'm stuck with boring Qwant and Ecosia... Well h…
1. Yandex is dutch controlled, the russia-related business got sold in 2024 to Russian investors. 2. Yandex was never owned by the Russian government, albeit government-related censorship happened (but so does on Twitter/Google/Meta etc as they all have to comply with local laws where they operate). 3. Kagi answers questions about Russian war crimes. You can try yourself [1] 4. There's no such thing as a legal war, t…