Earlier quoted context omitted.
Love NextDNS as well - my only gripe with it is that I cant have separate filters and lists for different sets of devices. Would love to have my family on some more basic security and privacy stuff while keeping the advanced and higher false positive based stuff for my devices.
Hmm, what do you mean? I have a number of different profiles, all with unique settings (lists). It's to the right of the NextDNS logo in the UI as a dropdown. Then in the client you choose which profile you want to connect to.
Kagi: A Premium Search Engine
211–220 of 228 posts
Re: Kagi: A Premium Search Engine
#212Re: Kagi: A Premium Search Engine
#213I must say that going from google, DDG, Quant I'm most satisfied with you.com. This seems to be a similar engine.
Re: Kagi: A Premium Search Engine
#214Earlier quoted context omitted.
I appreciate the sentiment and I can certainly understand it. This is of course what I thought too in the beginning, but as curiosity and then determination led one thing to another, we learned that things are doable, as much as that sounded as science fiction. Certainly there is evidence in user feedback that, at least for some people, Kagi is decent at what it does. The fundamental premise that enables it is the fo…
Towards that end, I wonder if you could partner with or incorporate some of the things Marginalia is doing. https://search.marginalia.nu/
In part I've been postponing this because I'm planning a bigger overhaul of rate limiting and access stuff, in part to get rid off cloudflare because I don't want a creepy MITM spying on my users if it isn't absolutely necessary.
Re: Kagi: A Premium Search Engine
#215Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hmm, what do you mean? I have a number of different profiles, all with unique settings (lists). It's to the right of the NextDNS logo in the UI as a dropdown. Then in the client you choose which profile you want to connect to.
I guess for the most part I am not using any the clients - I just point my home router DNS, my Android operating system DNS, and any browsers that might bypass. I erroneously assumed those profiles could only be chosen if the client was being used but it looks like I may actually be able to create different profiles and then still just point the devices network settings to the correct IP. Too bad for "LinkedIP" they…
[0] I remember I had a cronjob calling a particular custom NextDNS URL regularly, through which I'd like to remember I was able to choose a specific profile
Re: Kagi: A Premium Search Engine
#216Re: Kagi: A Premium Search Engine
#217There have been a couple of discussions on HN lately [0][1] about the current state of search engine results, be it served by Google, Bing, DDG or other. Also, it seems like there is a lot of work on search engine alternatives as in the case of Kagi and also here [2] to name but a few. Of all alternatives, Kagi seems to be off to a very good start and I personally am a very happy beta user. What I have not seen so fa…
Re: Kagi: A Premium Search Engine
#218Earlier quoted context omitted.
How would you solve the issue of self-censorship when the exact identity of a searcher is known? Can you Guarantee the privacy of searches and that you will never sell search history data?
Those are good questions, thank you. I think that a class of people, who ask kind of questions that need absolute guarantee of anonymity (I am thinking terrorists, drug dealers, traffickers etc) are: - Looking for a different thing (because anonymity is not the same as privacy) - Are probably looking at tools that cost much more than Kagi does We are not even interested in serving that market. Having said that: - Kag…
We are living in a world where it is more based in fact to assume that companies will help themselves to this kind of information under a variety of pretenses than that they won't. The only reason people will assume differently is if they trust the company, the product and the people behind it. The policy seems to be doing its part, but trust needs to be built by every conversation with a potential future customer. If the question that pops up is "how can I be anonymous if I pay you each month", the resulting argumentation should not be able to be construed as "we're sorry, but we're not going to help be your burner phone", which the comment I'm replying to is toeing dangerously close to.
People search for many things and it could detail their interests, their current location, their financial troubles. The commitment needs to be "we will never, never, never, ever, do anything like this", and not just "it doesn't make sense for us to do this". Because if someone wanted to build in that sort of tracking, it could "make sense" from a business standpoint to do this in that the data, if collected, has a lot of value on the market.
Even if the incentives are indeed aligned to keep the paying customer pleased, we also need to know that if we do walk away, that at that point there will not possibly be anything left as an artifact that a future buyer could do anything with. This assurance will be most effective if it's rooted in trust and values rather than in practical concerns; the practical concerns are valid, but only if they are restraints that have been applied in search of an objective by yourself, instead of "it is not currently in our business plan". (As an extreme example, consider a bank saying "we'd never pick items out of our customers' safe deposit boxes and sell them; it would simply be too much work".)
Basically, the facts seem reasonable enough. But you need to work on not coming off like the parent saying "well I'm sorry you want to hide things from me", which is what unprompted bringing up the covering up of criminal activity in response to questions of anonymity and privacy does. I understand that those concerns do come up in thinking responsibly about a product like this from all angles, but making it a part of a discussion with a potential customer disrespects and denigrates their fundamental needs enormously, the same needs that would make them attracted to the product in the first place.
Re: Kagi: A Premium Search Engine
#219Earlier quoted context omitted.
>DDG still isn't anywhere near peak Google quality and yet they've seen (actual) exponential growth for years. Google gets the total of DDG's lifetime searches (over a decade's worth) in about half a week. "Exponential growth" is overselling it.
Maybe they’re using “exponential” metaphorically to mean “a lot”. But if they’re using “exponential” literally, then maybe the exponent is 1.03.
To me it looks literally exponential until half a year ago.
Re: Kagi: A Premium Search Engine
#220Earlier quoted context omitted.
How would you solve the issue of self-censorship when the exact identity of a searcher is known? Can you Guarantee the privacy of searches and that you will never sell search history data?
Those are good questions, thank you. I think that a class of people, who ask kind of questions that need absolute guarantee of anonymity (I am thinking terrorists, drug dealers, traffickers etc) are: - Looking for a different thing (because anonymity is not the same as privacy) - Are probably looking at tools that cost much more than Kagi does We are not even interested in serving that market. Having said that: - Kag…
Or just plainly searching about legal or medical issues to learn/get informed can yield some very questionable queries taken out of context as well.
Do you currently log user search queries?