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Niléane Jan 5, 2024

Huge yikes.

Kagi is now partnering with Brave to power its search results — and they seem to be dismissing their users’ concerns regarding this partnership with a company that’s notorious for being led by a proud anti gay rights supporter.

Just as I’ve consistently advised against using Brave’s products, I now advise against using Kagi as long as it contributes to a homophobic business.

There can be no neutral politics when it comes to people’s rights and lives.

https://kagifeedback.org/d/2808-reconsider-your-partnership-with-brave

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Niléane Jan 5, 2024

What a disappointment.

I was genuinely enthusiastic about Kagi. I've been using the service for about a month, and I would have gladly continued my subscription for what I thought was a great product.

But there's no way I'm letting any more of my money go to them if they're perfectly aware that there's a chance it could end up in the accounts of those who actively fight to have me stripped of my rights.

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Niléane Jan 5, 2024

Here’s a couple of screenshots from the forum thread since it seems to be down at the moment.

1st screenshot is the initial post from a user expressing their concerns.

2nd and 3rd screenshots are responses from the Kagi team.

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Niléane Jan 6, 2024

After exchanging a few DMs with Kagi founder Vladimir Prelovac tonight, it seems that they are not going to change or evolve their stance on this matter anytime soon. Welp.

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Dean, Steven

@nileane “By including results from Brave API, we add more results to our pool, …“
but
“(currently we serve both, but this is not the plan long term)”

“…and we put users ahead of money because this costs us additional money to provide.”
but
“Brave API is cheaper than Google API. If we can figure out a way to do use it transaprently without negatively impacting search results, we can use this to lower our costs (currently we serve both, but this is not the plan long term).”