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Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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lukas099 wrote: post #153
Modified3019 wrote: post #41

ublacklist works with many search engines. A little bit of very easy effort goes a LONG way to cleaning up your results. https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist And here's two bonus things you need if you make use of youtube Sponsorblock. As it says on the tin, automatically skips sponsor sections. https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock Dearrow. An open source and crowdsourced tool replace youtubes stupid fucking clickb…

Followed the Firefox link on DeArrow, and it leads to an "Oops! We can't find that page".

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Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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Post by folmar »

SushiHippie wrote: post #338
lukas099 wrote: post #153

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Followed the Firefox link on DeArrow, and it leads to an "Oops! We can't find that page".

https://github.com/ajayyy/DeArrow/issues/122

In short: it was temporarily removed due to XSS vulnerability and the fixed version is in review.

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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Post by OJFord »

maccard wrote: post #348
OJFord wrote: post #38

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Similarly, I had no idea about this feature, but I now know I want it... I think I just need it to be cheaper, maybe $5 unlimited (or enough for me, which I think is certainly higher than 300, probably higher than 1000, at least without behaviour change) and I'd be in I assume it's a bit chicken and egg - marginal costs of new customers/extra searches is relatively low, it's the crawling & development/SRE that's expe…

Alternatively, you're only willing to pay roughly the cost of a coffee per month for something you deem as a killer feature for everyday use.

I didn't say it was a 'killer feature', I said 'now I know I want it'. There are very many things I want but not at the price they cost!

I don't think coffee's a great analogy - it has far more utility for me, I don't buy it as a service, and it costs me roughly £24 (what, $30ish) a month in beans.

I'm not seriously suggesting it because I think comparing prices of different things to determine value very quickly gets silly, but a closer comparison might be Netflix: Kagi would cost me about as much per month for search as Netflix. Silly, as I said, but if I tried really strictly to pay for things according to relative value or utility to me, there's no way that would make sense.

Part of the problem is asking me to switch from free I suppose - if DDG suddenly started charging me $5 I'd be more likely to pay Kagi $10 than I am today if that makes sense.

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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Post by o1y32 »

nottorp wrote: post #298
S201 wrote: post #182

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> The single biggest deficiency of Kagi is Apple’s exclusive control over the list of selectable default search providers in iOS Safari. Seems like a deficiency of Apple products to me. I know it's beating a dead horse, but this is what happens when people willingly buy into a closed system they have no control over.

Funny thing is, people are buying Apple products because the alternative is Google, and why are you paying for Kagi, because you trust Google?

I don't trust Google, but it's practical. There are tons of ways you can control/limit privacy issues, like a combination of opting out of personalized ads, AdGuard, DNS level filtering, and not using any Google services other than necessary for Android. Many of these require little effort but go very far -- farther than the default experience from a new iPhone. In fact many of these things are unrelated to Android. With these in place I don't see using Android a problem by itself. (On the other hand, if you use an iPhone but have no adblocking or don't block tracking domains, and use Google services all the time, I don't see how it is better)

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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Post by OJFord »

jon_richards wrote: post #180
OJFord wrote: post #38

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Similarly, I had no idea about this feature, but I now know I want it... I think I just need it to be cheaper, maybe $5 unlimited (or enough for me, which I think is certainly higher than 300, probably higher than 1000, at least without behaviour change) and I'd be in I assume it's a bit chicken and egg - marginal costs of new customers/extra searches is relatively low, it's the crawling & development/SRE that's expe…

Defaulting to DuckDuckGo and using a bang for kagi when I don’t immediately get what I want would be nice. Unfortunately there isn’t one. I guess I could use an extension that lets me add personal ones.

There's also a suggestion form: https://duckduckgo.com/newbang

I can't remember what for but I'm pretty sure I've used it and gotten a pretty fast approval.

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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Post by sebzim4500 »

cyberlurker wrote: post #333
Tenemo wrote: post #276

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Let’s dispel with this fiction that Google doesn’t know what they're doing. They know exactly what they're doing. They're trying to change the internet.

Is this a Rubio quote?

Yeah, it's so good he said it twice.

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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Post by code-blooded »

deadbunny wrote: post #334
alternatex wrote: post #326

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Interestingly not supported on Firefox Android. It's the first time I come across an add-on that doesn't work on both.

Firefox on Android only supports a handful of curated add-ons. You can apparently create your own collections or install anything with Firefox Nightly but I've not done this.

You can do that with Firefox Beta too, which likely will give you better experience / stability. It's a shame you have to jump through so many hoops to get it working.

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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Post by naillo »

int_19h wrote: post #245
rchaud wrote: post #195

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There's literally working code demos for everything on the site that's front-end or client-side.

Yes, and historically those code demos were often wrong in many important ways (like not working in all browsers, or insecure). They are much better now but reputation is hard to recover.

That must have been like 12 years ago or more at least because in my career I don't have much memory of feeling betrayed by the information on their site.
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