I wrote an article comparing privacy oriented search engines' privacy policies. Would love your thoughts. : privacy

[-] venji10@feddit.de 29 points 11 months ago

I don't think a blog named "iOSLife" belongs here. Apple is one of the worst offenders in terms of privacy violations.

[-] macallik@kbin.social 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I think the article appears biased because searxng appears to offer the same functionality as Kagi, in spite of being free, yet Kagi is shown to be the best in class for some reason? Also it doesn't touch on the critique that kagi having a login potentially aggregates all of your searches into one account that is stored by one company.

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[+] Dominik@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

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[-] Linus_Torvalds@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

Kagi user myself. Great experience, worth the $10.

Side note: Your posts feels a bit like self-promotion 🫥

[-] ioslife@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 11 months ago

Yeah, Kagi seems pretty cool so far.

Not trying to self-promote, just looking for feedback on my findings and to see if anyone has other opinions to share around the products

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[-] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I don't see how it's self-promotion if there's no profit to be made. In my book, it's no different than someone making a text post here.

[-] ioslife@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 11 months ago

I think all of the "drama" in this thread could've been solved with me copy and pasting my words into a self post

[-] digger@lemmy.ca 7 points 11 months ago

I appreciate that you included sections of the relevant privacy policies. I like your approach.

Please run what you write through spell check. You misspelled: extremely, business, advertisers, educated, and default. The word October could be capitalized, but as part of a hypothetical search query, it could be lower case on purpose.

Lastly, Qwant is struck through in your last sentence. It's unclear if you chose that formatting because you don't recommend it (as stated earlier) or for some other reason.

Keep writing! We need more of this!

[-] ioslife@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 11 months ago

Oh yikes. Those are egregious spelling errors hahaha. Thank you for reading and the feedback!

Yes, I struckthrough Qwant since they are sending your IP to Microsoft with every search. :)

[-] stankmut@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

It might be worth throwing in something at the bottom of the page explaining why you struck it through.

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[-] TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago

Can you ask for permission before self promoting next time?

[-] Vent@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

People aren't allowed to post their own stuff now? That's been the norm since forever.

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[-] ioslife@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 11 months ago

Oh. Sure. I truthfully was just looking for some feedback on my findings and didn't see any rules against posting articles written by self.

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[+] Melco@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 4 points 11 months ago

I didn't even read OP's post but...

You state that Kaji is the best when actually they are clearly the worst

It's Kagi not Kaji. If you're going to criticize something at least get the name right.

If you pay them then everything you do on their site is linked directly do you.

Privacy is not anonymity... and it's a pev of mine that people confuse this.

However, you can get pretty close to anonymity paying them in crypto:

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/plans/payment-methods.html

These "articles" from unknown websites su h ad ioslife are clearly a native ads, this one for Kaji. Kaijis marketing agency has a lot of bots on this platform so it will get upvotes and but you are fooling nobody.

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[-] ioslife@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

TIL I am a bot. :)

I also made it a point not to state anything is the best or the worst and mentioned that the choice is up to you and your threat model.

Also, thanks to @digger@lemmy.ca for pointing out my typos. I have fixed them now.

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[-] Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

FYI that site is on the cbuijs list of malicious domains

ETA : improving(.) Duckduckgo (.) Com

[-] ioslife@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 11 months ago

You're saying ioslife.dev is on a list? I did a quick search on Kagi and didn't find anything. Could you share more info about what you're talking about? Thanks!

[-] Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

The list is called 'cbuijs Malicious Domains' according to my firewall logs.

You might want to ask them to take you off the list.

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[-] kraniax@lemmy.wtf 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

This is clearly biased. Your points against SearXNG are weak. And you purposefully ignore the huge privacy implications of needing an account to do searches.

I don't think this is written by a bot, but I'd say it's either a camouflaged ad or a rather biased article.

Edit: To be clear. I do not care that a certain company has a good privacy policy. I want verifiable facts, not unverifiable claims. Their backend is proprietary, while SearXNG is free software. There's only one entity behind that company, which could be (or turn) malicious at any moment. Meanwhile, SearXNG is hosted by multiple individuals and organizations, you could even use a different instance each time, so it's impossible to corelate your search queries.

So yeah, this is a rather biased article towards a certain company.

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