I hope I am not coming as dismissive. If you have a concrete issue you want to raise I suggest using https://kagifeedback.org to bring our attention to it, this is the main way our users raise various issues with us.

I know, I meant one can use a search engine for free AND privately with a little bit of effort. But I dislike that model so I prefer to pay.

Please don't dismiss the issues with privacy on Kagi

franzap

What I meant by no 'free' ones, is that there is always currency involved - either your money (eg Kagi) or your data/privacy/attention (eg. most legacy search engines).

>  understand the incentive structure, but how can I be certain that you're not taking the $10 AND selling my data?

Because the moment something like that leaked, our business would be dead. This is what alignment of incentives means.

vladquant

I'm Vlad, founder of Kagi Search and Orion Browser. AMA.

I understand the incentive structure, but how can I be certain that you're not taking the $10 AND selling my data?

> There are no 'free' search engines

Yes they are, if you know how to use them (can definitely run them through proxies). But they're financed with the privacy of other people and I hate that model so I don't want to feed it.

LN payments are awesome, thanks for that.