https://blog.kagi.com/celebrating-20k

The process from here involves setting up a business entity in Germany, so we can import the t-shirts, store them in a warehouse, connect inventory logistics and ship them all over the world. This includes building a website and connecting it to a back-end database. So, we basically ended up owning a merch production operation end-to-end, just so that we could ensure premium quality of these t-shirts!

like… why

You specifically stated that “They deleted the fact that they are a metasearch engine”.

I specifically didn’t.

The page you linked clearly explains that they use other search engine sources

it doesn’t specify which ones, though.

Our search results also include anonymized API calls to:

• all major search result providers worldwide, [such as?]
• specialized search engines like Marginalia,
• and sources of vertical information such as Wolfram Alpha, Apple, Wikipedia, Open Meteo, Yelp, TripAdvisor, and other APIs

domain blocking

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/android/addon/ublacklist/

custom bangs

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/android/addon/yang-addon/

they are fairly upfront about honestly.

as long as you don’t really want to know which search engines they use https://kagifeedback.org/d/5185-more-detailed-information-about-search-sources

SearXNG generates a URL that contains all the preferences you’ve set, so it’s a matter of copying it and setting it as a default search engine on another device.

even being that expensive, they’re not breaking even

huh, I guess starting their own T-shirt business wasn’t that great of a move after all

it has been for a few years already.

which term you believe is that? https://loops.video/legal/terms-of-service

if you use Android’s built-in setting to set up DNS instead of using an app that uses the VPN slot, you might have more success.

also, you might want toggling “block connections without VPN” off in system settings, I had to disable it when using KDE Connect with Mullvad.

inb4 “ackshully…”

they got very defensive about disclosing their search sources ever since the Brave thing, lol https://kagifeedback.org/d/5185-more-detailed-information-about-search-sources

https://thenib.com/im-a-luddite/

yes, I’m well aware. I’m jokingly referring to more than one hundred journalists that were mentioned in the title of the article.

more than 100 journalists: Bluesky, gotcha

I use the one from hostux.net, it’s quite easy to figure out what “login”, “password” and “remember me for 30 days” are in French.

https://freshrss.org/cloud-providers.html

design consistent with the Magic Mouse

an open source service gets bought/joins an AI company to develop a closed source version of the same service, while leaving the code ot the old clients open.

Its still open source

the code for the client they’re about to abandon is, that’s about it. the new service doesn’t share its source code.