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I honestly don't get the idea of an outrage specifically right here and right now. I do understand why people may have issues with Kagi but only now? Kagi has also been using Yandex as its search backend for quite a while and I don't think anyone gave a crap, considering all the things happening in the world. And now adding Brave is suddenly "I am not paying you anymore"? Am I missing something?
There is no outrage, they supposedly lost 0.5% of the users which means they lost only this one person who us making all this noise.
And before Yandex, Google - which they use since the beginning, and which it makes also clear that using the services of a company is at the moment a necessary evil, and does not mean in any way endorsing the values (or lack thereof...) of that company.
But apparently some people are really tunnel visioning on some specific issues and looking at them from a short term perspective only.
Being political I would say that this is an unfortunate result of the lack of a strong collective movement in the left, which leads to people looking mostly at individual problems but not at collective problems, because these seem overwhelming and potentially destabilizing for the status quo.