5 ms·

You’re paying Google via the profile they have of you. Remember there’s no such thing as a free lunch while you’re feeling so superior

throwaway290 2y ago
If you use Kagi and visit any sites with google analytics etc. then you are paying Kagi with your bucks AND Google with your profile. Oh and you can use Google completely anonymously. You can't do it with Kagi. All your searches go with your billing address (but you can trust Vlad they won't ever use it to profile you). Maybe the aura of superiority from paying $10 per month for something 99% ppl don't pay for blinds you to the above facts.
- phluxbox 2y ago
  It costs money to run a service. If you are not paying for that service, there is an obvious incentive to monetize your data. If you are paying a reasonable price for a service, that business can sustain itself without using advertising. Your billing address is not something advertisers can use to track you. Sure, if you use Kagi to commit crimes you may not be anonymous to the police. But there are a lot of people who do not want to be profiled by ad networks, yet do not consider providing their billing information to be a privacy issue. Your comment about "the aura of superiority" is dismissive and a little confrontational. The commenter you were responding to was clear about why he likes Kagi - better results. I agree with him. I find that searches for product reviews and similar commercial terms have much higher quality results than google. I also find that I get better results when I am searching for errors or lines from logfiles. Even when quoted, I find that Google will often return results that partially match my quote ignoring the important part, which makes the search useless.
  - throwaway290 2y ago
    > If you are not paying for that service, there is an obvious incentive to monetize your data. And it goes away if you pay for it? > Sure, if you use Kagi to commit crimes you may not be anonymous to the police. The "nothing to hide" arguments, gotcha. > But there are a lot of people who do not want to be profiled by ad networks And using Kagi helps with that how? You know that if you open any website from results, you are still profiled by ad networks? > Your comment about "the aura of superiority" is dismissive and a little confrontational I was replying to someone who accused me of being superior (because I know how to use Google? lol). Garbage in, garbage out. > Even when quoted, I find that Google will often return results that partially match my quote ignoring the important part As I said, if there is no exact match I see "no results for your search". It is a daily occurrence. It smells of planted misinformation, sorry. Considering you are a newly created account as well.

throwaway290 2y ago

If you use Kagi and visit any sites with google analytics etc. then you are paying Kagi with your bucks AND Google with your profile. Oh and you can use Google completely anonymously. You can't do it with Kagi. All your searches go with your billing address (but you can trust Vlad they won't ever use it to profile you). Maybe the aura of superiority from paying $10 per month for something 99% ppl don't pay for blinds you to the above facts.

phluxbox 2y ago
It costs money to run a service. If you are not paying for that service, there is an obvious incentive to monetize your data. If you are paying a reasonable price for a service, that business can sustain itself without using advertising. Your billing address is not something advertisers can use to track you. Sure, if you use Kagi to commit crimes you may not be anonymous to the police. But there are a lot of people who do not want to be profiled by ad networks, yet do not consider providing their billing information to be a privacy issue. Your comment about "the aura of superiority" is dismissive and a little confrontational. The commenter you were responding to was clear about why he likes Kagi - better results. I agree with him. I find that searches for product reviews and similar commercial terms have much higher quality results than google. I also find that I get better results when I am searching for errors or lines from logfiles. Even when quoted, I find that Google will often return results that partially match my quote ignoring the important part, which makes the search useless.
- throwaway290 2y ago
  > If you are not paying for that service, there is an obvious incentive to monetize your data. And it goes away if you pay for it? > Sure, if you use Kagi to commit crimes you may not be anonymous to the police. The "nothing to hide" arguments, gotcha. > But there are a lot of people who do not want to be profiled by ad networks And using Kagi helps with that how? You know that if you open any website from results, you are still profiled by ad networks? > Your comment about "the aura of superiority" is dismissive and a little confrontational I was replying to someone who accused me of being superior (because I know how to use Google? lol). Garbage in, garbage out. > Even when quoted, I find that Google will often return results that partially match my quote ignoring the important part As I said, if there is no exact match I see "no results for your search". It is a daily occurrence. It smells of planted misinformation, sorry. Considering you are a newly created account as well.