Kagi Introducing Fair Pricing
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This is a really big question! Let's wait patiently for them to answer it.
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Kagi is rolling this out to people who never use their service. So that would be equivalent to you paying your mobile provider and never making a phone call or text for an entire month.
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They specifically avoid sanctions by routing payments through Kazakhstan, and tried to claim Yandex wasn't even a russian company when called out.
And no, the US is not the same. You might not have hosted Ukrainian refugees or be in full understanding of what's happening there but any money going into Russia is right now used for torture, rape and killing of Ukrainians.
I had a Kagi family subscription and immediately cancelled when I learnt about Vlad's "it's just some geopolitical opinions" stance. I also know others have done the same.
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I'm sure she would find equivocating the US with Russia very reasonable
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I am repeating data points they shared during the community event.
BTW buddy, you can cool it with the passive-aggressiveness. Not everyone on the internet is out to get you.
The info about them breaking even at 25k was shared in the discord channel (which I very rarely look). The rest are stats that are published on their website and as I said shared during the yearly community event.
I work in tech, and I would be blind to acknowledge that a company which:
- is profitable/breaks even after few years of operation
- does that with 25k users
- doesn't have a marketing budget (used to, now they might have a ridiculously small one).
Might be a healthy business, different from 99% of tech companies that generally bleed money even with millions of users.
You seem completely sure of the opposite, whatever, don't use their service lol
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I've been searching for an alternative search engine. Found Searx to be subpar.
Was thinking about Kagi, but if they work with the russians, that's an immediate no go for me.
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She doesn't, but that's my whole point: it's a personal perspective. If you ask a person from Palestine, Vietnam, many places in South America, Yemen, Iraq, etc. their gripes would be different from my own, which as an Italian are different already from my wife's etc.
So which moral claims do you accommodate? The obvious answer is everyone's, by allowing each user to choose where indirectly give money. However this is apparently technically hard, so either you shut down or you simply decide that you can't accommodate any, and make good in other areas (I.e. through privacy-preserving services).
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Do you use any other search engine?
