alt Hacker NewsIs it open source? Audited? It is like back to how vpn services try to establish some sort of a trust relationship, which imo is more dangerous to have a false sense of trust than none, I prefer no trust at all, zero trust, especially when the service is SaaS in the US.
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mcfly_c-137 • today at 7:35 AM
Here‘s an in-depth review from 03/2025 where Kagi and Metager are compared by german IT-Sec expert Mike Kuketz and his team.
No privacy-related concerns were raised back then.
It is a german blog (sorry, couldn’t find an EN-version), and a very trustworthy source for me.
https://www.kuketz-blog.de/besser-als-google-bezahlsuchmasch...
promiseofbeans • today at 12:30 AM
It should also work with the Cloudflare privacy pass extension [0] FWIW, since Kagi just implemented RFC 9576 [1]
Man, if only the article I had posted had answered those questions. That sure would be nice
https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-privacy-pass
https://github.com/kagisearch/privacypass-extension
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43040521
Yes and yes, since you you apparently aren't capable of reading for yourself
-edit- I decided I didn't like the tenor of the comments I made. This tone serves nothing but to degrade the quality of online discourse so I will say this:
I don't personally have the technical chops to verify the claims that Kagi is making. And no one should blindly trust the statements of faceless companies. For me personally, the claims, discussion in the linked hacker news post, and the direction of Kagi's economic incentives are enough to satisfy me personally. Nothing says that someone else must be satisfied by that level of evidence, which is definitely not proof positive. However, I also very strongly believe that the level of paranoia that it takes to decide that all of that is not enough would also 100% disbar one from using google, even without an account. I do not think that one can honestly say that, with the evidence we have on hand, that Kagi is less privacy protecting that google. They may not be privacy protecting enough, whatever standard that is for someone, but they are absolutely doing more than google.