That’s absolutely true. The problem is that, to make use of VPN services, it’s required to have an account or other identifier.

But that’s no true for search engines. If I wanted to, I could make completely anonymous searches using SearXNG or DDG from different IPs and they would not have any way to correlate the search queries.

That’s not true with Kagi and it’s a completely unnecessary privacy risk you’re taking when using it.

copypasting the other comment I made in this thread:

and am I supposed to believe such a bold claim? the only reason they give is “trust me, bro. I pinky promise I’m not logging anything”.

You have one account, every search query you make is associated with that account. And even if they aren’t selling that ultra sensitive data, I’m sure they are keeping logs to prevent abuse and fix bugs which could be used when a third party gains access to their servers (malicious actors, law enforcement, etc).

And that’s assuming that Kagi is not mining and or selling any data themselves, which is a bold assumption given how little we know about their proprietary product. If at least they published the source code, but no. I’m supposed to trust a proprietary black box which could potentially be linking every search query back to me.

and am I supposed to believe such a bold claim? the only reason they give is “trust me, bro. I pinky promise I’m not logging anything”.

You have one account, every search query you make is associated with that account. And even if they aren’t selling that ultra sensitive data, I’m sure they are keeping logs to prevent abuse and fix bugs which could be used when a third party gains access to their servers (malicious actors, law enforcement, etc).

And that’s assuming that Kagi is not mining and or selling any data themselves, which is a bold assumption given how little we know about their proprietary product. If at least they published the source code, but no. I’m supposed to trust a proprietary black box which could potentially be linking every search query back to me.

most are. just do a side by side comparison. for most queries it’s literally the same results.

I think it was because they dropped Yandex results.

same. specially considering how privacy invasive kagi is.

It is as useless. After all, it’s just Bing. But if the results are good enough for you, then why bother finding something else.

I hope urban community gardens were a thing in my country. It would provide fresh and cheap vegetables and I wouldn’t mind working at it a few hours per month.

When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich.

you’re not wrong. Google just announced Gemini Nano that will run directly on the Pixel 8. Of course, it’s the first of it’s kind and will probably be slow and it’s not used as autocorrect yet. But just give it one year or two and it will probably be more common.

LLMs are orders of magnitude more sophisticated and expensive to run. But don’t worry, I’m sure not so far in the future we will see smaller LLMs being run on device to be used as autocorrect.

As a Mexican, you are. And there’s nothing wrong with that. It’s not a racist term. It’s just like calling someone from France an European. Or someone from South Korea an asian.

The French guy will probably have nothing in common with a swedish, yet they happen to be both European, just like a Japanese will have a totally different culture than a Mongol, yet they are asians.

You can of course tell people to stop calling you a latino if you want to. However society automatically puts labels on people and they will call you whatever they want. If I were you, I’d just stop giving it any importance.

that’s just a temporal patch and does not solve the monopoly situation

as long as your traffic goes PC -> VPN -> Tor -> web server, there’s nothing really wrong with that. Instead of your ISP being able to tell you’re using Tor, it will be your VPN who knows that you’re using Tor. But there’s nothing really wrong with that.

What you should never do is PC -> Tor -> VPN/proxy -> web server.

a second hand 6a cost me around 200 bucks and it will be supported till 2027. the pixel 7a shouldn’t be much more expensive tho.

Definitely not wiremin! it’s scam

Look at their website, they keep babbling about their “protocol”, but all you can find about this supposed protocol is marketing speak, no real technical specification or paper, no code, nothing. How does this thing actually run? Nobody knows.

It’s proprietary, which alone is enough reason to run away from it. And seeing that the dev’s email is gmail, we can be sure they don’t give a fuck about privacy or decentralization.

at least Wikipedia is human-curated.

you “bought” kiwix? AFAIK it’s free

This is good advice.

just wanted to add that OP needs to mask their IP. If they log to social media and other sites, including their bank, with their real IP then the correlation is easily done by a government that will have access to ISP’s logs.

I’d recommend OP to use a VPN for all their online traffic, making an exception to their bank because they might block VPN/Tor.

Also, it’s quite important that they never give their real phone number and don’t reuse email accounts. Having a separate browser profile is also a good practice.

that server is directly tied to you. this won’t make a difference at all.