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Shameless Kagi shill here - the company's leadership is shaky and has a recent tendency to focus dumb AI things, but their core product is 2012 Google. It _feels_ even better than 2012 Google. Combine a quality search engine w/ the fact that I can walk from funding them the moment they look to ads for revenue and I'm a very happy customer.

You're liquidating the 800M and still owe your broker 200M, it's risk avoidance not a church full of forgiveness.

Can confirm, gave up Google Search + Gmail about 6 months ago and it's literally improved my performance at work. It's impressive what is missed out on when an ad is papered over everything you read.

Drew used to be a hugely inspiring developer to me, but recently he's spent more time politicizing than anything else. I find it difficult to understand people who nosily theorize a lot and build little, which is what Drew has become. FOSS works well when you have a large margin to allow other ideas to fly around, even if you personally disagree with those ideas.

> Everyday random things

If your searches are this descriptive then yes, I'd expect useless results everywhere. I use Kagi where Bing used to be, for technical reference lookups. It's excellent at putting API docs front-and-center, which means I can alt-tab back to my text editor that much faster. What I love about Kagi is how little of my time and attention the tool requires.

Also my own anecdata - the privacy concerns are a red herring, because the utility of knowing everything you've typed into your PC is diminished when ad surface area no longer exists. I like that Kagi has a privacy focus, but them losing it would not cause me to stop paying for the service as long as the quality was the same or better.

Anecdata; I did. Best $10/mo I've spent in a few years.

By that logic, life itself can never be popular. Everyone in the world makes/has access to a non-zero amount of money, and where it goes is our collective human decision for how the world should operate. You're spending money right now, because of your opportunity cost!

Kagi v Google, in terms of "How do you operate as an organization wrt the world?"?

Kagi wins hands-down. I couldn't care less about the privacy angle, the QUALITY is amazing. It's like traveling back to 2008, and for $10/mo that's a sweet deal.

I hate to be that guy, but the vast majority of people using "VPN"s are actually using Proxies. A VPN connects a laptop at starbucks to a printer at the office so you can print something. A Proxy forwards requests on your behalf to web servers and returns results. Modern VPNs are marketed as such because people love the "P" part without realizing that... they already had that with SSL.

Not OP but I do something similar, because I know each ad I see costs someone $$$. This leads to odd behavior like making sure I let youtube ads play for their full duration and I'll usually click on sponsor links + their pages enough to trigger the first flag of a sales pipeline, ensuring the company responsible for the ad pays as much as possible for it.

You've still got a different IP that'll count against # of users for the account

> For each letter in the password, write down a common name that begins with that letter. Read the list of names.

Ancdata, but my mental health is doing great from all these social network changes! First leaving Snapchat for AI nonsense, yesterday I left discord over this hullabaloo. The largest change in my social network inputs is actually cost; I decided to pay for twitter b/c it would piss a ton of people off, and a youtuber got me hooked on Ground news which is essentially an article-shotgun utility. I figure I'm just trading the zero-money-cost but high-bad-actor-cost of one type of company for the several-dollars-cost and reasonably-balanced-actor type of company. Net positive in my book because advertisers lose.

Easily worked around, video element w/ the restaurant's opening doors as frame 0.

> There is plenty of sway happening in the upper class

I mean my anecdata says it _looks_like_ there is plenty of sway - the end goal of course is as always distraction from useful information that can be used for planning

Agreed, I don't care how much you own but if you tell me how to live my life we're not gonna be friends. stcroixx, go have fun building the future yesbut will be complaining about no matter how awesome it ends up being. I'll be right beside you!