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submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Today we are announcing a new privacy feature coming to Kagi Search. Privacy Pass is an authentication protocol first introduced by Davidson and recently standardized by the IETF as RFCs. At the same time, we are announcing the immediate availability of Kagi’s Tor onion service.

In general terms, Privacy Pass allows “Clients” (generally users) to authenticate to “Servers” (like Kagi) in such a way that while the Server can verify that the connecting Client has the right to access its services, it cannot determine which of its rightful Clients is actually connecting. This is particularly useful in the context of a privacy-respecting paid search engine, where the Server wants to ensure that the Client can access the services, and the Client seeks strong guarantees that, for example, the searches are not associated with them.

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

Kagi keeps getting better and better.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

And it's already the best search engine I've used in a while!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago
[-] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Kagi user chiming in here. Have been incredibly happy with the service in terms of search quality and overall usefulness since subscribing. Feels like Google in the early, early days (I was there) before they lost their soul. Their changelog page is instructive; -- https://kagi.com/changelog

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 5 days ago)
[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Let us know what you find, if anything please.
I'm definitely interested in this service, but I've seen some suspicion surrounding it.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 5 days ago)
[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Very interesting.
You you for your efforts. Do you mind if I create a post in BestOfLemmy to share your findings and bring this to the attention of others? I feel this needs to be discussed.
Or do you have a more fitting place?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 5 days ago)
[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I think so and hope others do too. ^^ I hope I didn't butcher this. If you think something should change or some added context is needed, let me know or correct the record there if youd like of course. Here it is: https://lemmy.world/post/25584230

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Originally they listed Yandex along with naming other major search engines, then later changed the language to say simply "major search engines".

What's the issue if API calls are anonymous?

https://github.com/kagisearch/kagi-docs/commit/6baff1c066db9b3d804653ea19bc9d1c076a710b

[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Sweet. Time to enable this right away. Been using privacy pass for a while now, and quite like it. Same can be said for kagi

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I installed it, but I'm probably just going to use it periodically. I really appreciate the website prioritization feature of Kagi ... so it's unfortunate that isn't compatible.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I was annoyed that I read the blog post and installed the extension, only to find that caveat right on the blog post footer. Feels like it should have been bolded right at the top.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

This finally gave me the push to switch to Orion browser after putting it off for a long time

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Nice! Maybe I'll finally give Kagi a shot.

this post was submitted on 13 Feb 2025
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