• ioslife@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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    1 year ago

    Kagi’s privacy policy claims that “Searches are anonymous and private to you. Kagi does not log and associate searches with an account.”

    SearXNG is tricky because the privacy policy comes from whatever instance you are using.

    Anecdotally, I have had better results from Kagi than SearXNG. The SearXNG instance I have been testing out keeps getting rate limited and mostly shows results from Qwant and Bing.

    I don’t really have a bias as I am testing out all of these options and trying to find the one that works best for my family.

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      Kagi can claim whatever they want in their privacy policy. Where’s the code of their servers? Because I see none. How do we know they aren’t keeping logs that could be easily correlated (by themselves or a third party who access their servers)?

      Even if we had the code, I would still be skeptical, we can’t be sure what code are they exactly running on the server side and having an account linked to every search is just awful.

      SearXNG is anonymous while offering the very same features, if not better.

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        1 year ago

        That’s a good point that I hadn’t considered. I do like the idea of SearXNG, but didn’t have great results when testing it. Maybe I should give it another shot on another instance.

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        Friend, I am just responding to your false claims with information from the privacy policy so that other users can be informed with what is clearly stated

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            If you notice, I am only including more information when someone (mostly you) has brought up concerns about one of the offerings. If you had brought up concerns around Whoogle, then this conversation would be about Whoogle instead of Kagi. I am not promoting anything and my post clearly says,

            Which one should I choose? That’s up to you and what your threat model is. Each one of the products I listed have pros and cons. They all have different and unique feature sets. They all pull from different search indexes. You should choose the one that provides the best results and amount of privacy you desire.

            I’d love to have more discussion around the other offerings in my post and even ones not listed.