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

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.

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.

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.

@nileane not surprising unfortunately :(

There was a similar thread a while back talking about whether or not they should put a suicide hotline number for certain searches. They were very opposed on the grounds of "well if we start doing that then we might have to also think about covid misinformation etc and then we're getting PoLiTiCaL" (as if inaction, itself, is not political)

@codicil @nileane every techbro is convinced that ‘precedent’ is somehow binding on private companies (jk they know it isn’t, but they know this is an excuse that works on white cishet men who value the appearance of logic over people)