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Introducing Waterfox Private Search (Beta) (www.waterfox.net)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Kagi was appealing to me as well, especially the quality of their results. However the requirement for a user profile (allowing them to build a profile based on your searches) and their involvement with AI soured me.

Would possibly pay for a search engine if it could somehow avoid the above pitfalls.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Yeah, the CEO of Kagi being hyped about AI made me worried about its future as well. I think you can disable all of that, but I want a search engine that is being built by people whose goal is to help me find things that real people, and real people only, have written.

With a paid search engine, it's hard to see a way around the problem of needing an account, unfortunately. Maybe it could just be an API key? Mullvad VPN does something like that. You have no username or password, just a long ID that you need to keep secret. And they are disposable -- you can just stop using it and buy a different API key next month.