thomholwerda,
@thomholwerda@exquisite.social avatar

The ads DuckDuckGo shows when I search for "Play Store".

Two obviously misleading or downright malicious links.

There is no more good search engine. If you mention Brave or Kagi I will burn your house down.

kerfuffle,
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@thomholwerda DuckDuckGo is just Bing, and I've found neither of them take responsibility for the search results.

BigAngBlack,
@BigAngBlack@fosstodon.org avatar

@thomholwerda
How do you feel about searx?

prospector,

@thomholwerda What's your issue with Kagi? Been using it for over 6 months now and it's been a joy. I also enjoy that it being a paid product makes it much more resistant to enshittification

thomholwerda,
@thomholwerda@exquisite.social avatar
prospector,

@thomholwerda Interesting, I was unaware of a lot of the things covered here. I completely agree that the company has made some mistakes, but nothing that seems too unusual for a small company run by a first-time founder (from what I can tell on his personal site)

I am suspicious of a number of things mentioned without any sort of references in the blog post mentioned, such as this Brave partnership? I cannot find anything other than Kagi adding support for the open Brave search index

shadowwwind,
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@prospector @thomholwerda Brave's CEO (and i believe owner) is Brendan Eich he seems to be anti LGBTQ as he donated to stop same sex marriage in California. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich

Brave also heavily invests in their own crypto currency and an ad model centered around Brave.

prospector,

@shadowwwind @thomholwerda Yeah but what does that have to do with Kagi?

shadowwwind,
@shadowwwind@fosstodon.org avatar

@prospector @thomholwerda kagi is paying Brave to use their search index API

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