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TLDR:

  • Spent a third of their initial funding on buying a small clothing factory to give away free shirts to the first 20k subscribers (Noble act from them imo, but financially irresponsible to buy a factory for this)
  • Didn’t pay taxes in the first 2 years (Apparently under 1000 users they don’t need to do taxes or sm and haven’t expected 20k users)
  • CEO (Vlad) thinks AI can give you unbiased reviews
  • Author finds AI tools bullshit and Kagi is doing and planning a lot of AI related stuffs
  • CEO is very opinionated and thinks that difference in opinions are “misunderstandings”
  • CEO personally writes emails to unsubscribed people about why they have left
  • Doesn’t have GDPR cause CEO thinks email isn’t a personally identifiable information

Probably I have forgot some stuff, but this is the gist of it for me.

@sudoer777@lemmy.ml
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The CEO has shitty stances on certain things but everything is basically a frontend to Google/Bing/Brave which are all also shitty so the entire search engine market is fucked from an ethical perspective

@EngineerGaming@feddit.nl
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Also, from the same source - a dismissive attitude to privacy (which is kind of a big deal if all your searches are tied to a single account, usually paid by a KYC method).

Libb
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4•12d

Thx for sharing. I do (happily) use Kagi as already stated in my other comment but I’m always willing to be more informed.

Sonalder
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Will take a read thx !

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