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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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unspeakablehorror Jan 6, 2024

@nileane Wow, their response to you is some real nonsense, lol. Like the Javascript thing, for example. It's one thing for them to use an API they are presumably *having to pay for*, another for someone to use a language like Javascript that no one has to pay a dime for just to use. Also the whole 'no ethical consumption under capitalism' argument they retreat to by mentioning Microsoft/Google/Yandex et al. It can in fact be worthwhile to do targeted boycotts and other actions against companies.

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unspeakablehorror

@nileane Even large companies like Microsoft and Google can have pressure applied to them, even when it's not possible to boycott them entirely. And so certainly small ones like Kagi are much easier to apply such actions to!