203 sats \ 7 replies \ @TonyGiorgio 11 Apr \ on: I'm Vlad, founder of Kagi Search and Orion Browser. AMA. AMA
This is amazing, thank you for what you do and for doing this as well. Lightning payments for this is a perfect use case and really appreciate the fact that you accept it.
I think the main reason I haven't used Kagi yet is because I'm turned off by tying all of my searches to the same account. Have you thought about pay-per-api call with Lightning? Or doing something with blind authentication tokens to pay for X number of requests upfront and you can't tie any of the requests back together to the source of payment?
There's a lot of things I believe Kagi gets right, but I'm concerned about the privacy by using a single account. I know I can throw away every month, but I don't know how often I would do that on top of all the other manual hassle I do every month for privacy.
We do not store searches. And we do not require a valid email address. And you can pay with Lightning already. Can you clarify what is the concern?
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Good to know, though the concern is that we have to trust that. Would prefer tech that we could verify searches wouldn't be linked together. Less concerned about it being stored, more concerned that it's being linked together tied to a specific individual.
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I am not an expert on Lightning, but presumably if you use it, it should be possible to link anything to a specific individual?
We are also experimenting with blind tokens
https://kagifeedback.org/d/653-completely-anonymous-searches-unlinked-to-the-account-blind-tokens
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Amazing, that's great to know. We just built something blind token based too at Mutiny, will be writing about it more this week.
Lightning can be very private from the sending perspective, less on the receiving side, though we're working on that too, slowly but surely.
Will throw up a burner account and play with Kagi more. Thank you for doing this and answering these questions!
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- Meant to say "it should not be possible"
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