alt Hacker NewsKagi is one of the few services that I will never use, it’s a privacy nightmare. Imagine all your search history are tied to one account, an account that id you with your payment information, and is hosted in the US? Google is better at this point, at least you can use it without an account.
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You must be joking. Google ties all of your searches to you wether you log in or not.
They don’t store search history linked to accounts. Logs are only retained for 7-90 days[0].
You can pay anonymously[1]. You can also authenticate anonymously, as someone else already mentioned.
Meanwhile Google retains everything forever and does everything in their power to track everything you do across the web and tie it back to you, logged in or not. This is their entire business model.
So make a new account every once in a while if you are that paranoid. The whole value proposition of kagi is that it moves you from being the product(eyeballs for ads) to the customer of a product(search results) This flips the incentive of the search provider from abusing you to serving you. Hard to say if it actually will work. But I applaud kagi for trying.
And it is not like you marry kagi and once you sign up you can never use another search engine again.
Here ya go:
https://help.kagi.com/kagi/privacy/privacy-pass.html