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I really love seeing this search engine grow and grow. It's just a fantastic search experience, much like Google in the early days before it became shit.

Everyone should at least try to set Kagi as default search for a while, to get back your private web searches and not help Google grow by selling your data to advertisers.

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[–] pixel@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Google is still scraping tremendous data from all of that, they're nefarious in that way, and it feels like a lost cause to some extent. The whole mobile ecosystem is dangerous and it worries me that legislation hasn't caught up. And migrating all that away from the convenience of Google is hard when you'd just leaned into that convenience for years