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Re: Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved weather widget

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Post by InCityDreams »

daveoc64 wrote: post #111
colesantiago wrote: post #109

"Sign Up to use Kagi" Why does one need to signup to use a "privacy" based search engine like Kagi if it needs my email and password? Can't it just accept a username like HN and be done with it? I'm trying to use a fake email, tor and a VPN and I'm running into errors, eventually I gave up.

It's a paid service, so you need to authenticate to use it. You're a paying customer, not the product.

100% anonymous is possible. I would love my [very, very anonymous] Mullvad account to be matched by kagi. As it is, my options are worse - but free.

Re: Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved weather widget

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Post by Toutouxc »

SSLy wrote: post #97
oriettaxx wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you mean writing non English search text, or for results not written in English?

Both? When I want to look up something in my native language.

10M people European country here, no issues. I get good results in the native language for "restaurants in [random 15K people town]", "[random local food] recipes", info about taxes from gov websites, recent local events, my own name (high school's website), my mom's name (her business website), random hobby forums.

Re: Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved weather widget

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Post by michaelmcdonald »

civilitty wrote: post #115

Kagi search is great and totally worth the $10/mo (I pay for Ultimate to get access to the assistant features but I'm not yet sure if they're worth it, though I'm happy to support the company). Custom bangs alone are worth the price: I have them set up for LibGen, all my torrent sites, archive.ph, and their summarizer (which I recently discovered is !sum by default, no need for a custom bang). But my favorite is a cu…

Would you share a bit more about how you have your custom bangs setup? I'm always curious to see the life hacks people implement that speed up workflow processes.

Re: Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved weather widget

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Post by civilitty »

Grimburger wrote: post #132
aryonoco wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are also browser extensions which can do that redirect, but of course the story of browser extensions on mobile OSes is quite sad, and I'm sure Reddit will get rid of the old UI of these days anyway

>the story of browser extensions... In general is that you can't ever trust them apart from a few very large ones. A redirect extension is ripe for the usual blackmarket shenanigans.

They’re simple enough that you can fork an open source extension and review the source with relative ease, freezing it.

I have my own omni extension made up of copy pasted open source extensions. I normally wouldn’t go through the effort but web browsing is crucial and frequent enough to be worth it and it took less than a weekend to get it up and running, especially with Plasmo. It’s also another reason to prefer Firefox and MV2

Re: Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved weather widget

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Post by seanthemon »

I had huge issues with Kagi because I don't just use google for research, but to find local things like finding a coffee shop in a location or using reviews to see what's going on, or some product I need to buy in my country - 70% of my searches fall in that category and I generally use AI or some light research for programming topics. Although the google results are poorer, the facility offering is far superior and I found I was switching between Kagi and Google too often. I think it's great for research, but not so great for researching day-to-day things you use in real life outside of the computer.

Re: Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved weather widget

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Post by karmelapple »

salad-tycoon wrote: post #68

I like Kagi , I do. I like the ranking, I like how I can search for controversial people and not have my intended search target censored by obfuscation. Kagi just gives me the data. That’s great! I pay the 5 a month but I run out mid month which makes me not use it and breaks the habit and worry. I’m considering the 10 a month but then I think I get 500gb e2ee cloud+email+email hosting+vpn+a couple of other small thi…

It’s $10. Is there anything you use less frequently than a search engine in your life that you pay $10/month for? Coffee, eating out, etc?

And sure, I hope they lower the price, but for the hundreds of searches I do every month, not dealing with ads in my face is wonderful. And companies need to pay the bills somehow.

Re: Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved weather widget

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Post by jmye »

carlosjobim wrote: post #121
salad-tycoon wrote: post #68

I like Kagi , I do. I like the ranking, I like how I can search for controversial people and not have my intended search target censored by obfuscation. Kagi just gives me the data. That’s great! I pay the 5 a month but I run out mid month which makes me not use it and breaks the habit and worry. I’m considering the 10 a month but then I think I get 500gb e2ee cloud+email+email hosting+vpn+a couple of other small thi…

> I’m considering the 10 a month but then I think I get 500gb e2ee cloud+email+email hosting+vpn+a couple of other small things from proton for $8.33 a month. Just because Proton is a great deal doesn't make Kagi a worse deal. This kind of logic never made sense to me. The products have nothing in common, so why the comparison? Then, also think about why you're worrying about spending $10 per month on a product that…

Absolutely. $120/year, to me, is cheap to have a search engine that actually, fundamentally works. That it keeps me out of the Google ecosystem a bit more is a massive added bonus. I pay similar to stay out of gmail and the rest of the G suite.

I get that some people have a different financial situation and I respect that, but the cost seems deeply negligible for the benefits of a tool I use tens to hundreds of times a day.

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