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by sph 999 days ago
> 2% better

Not in my experience, and what about user tracking and pervasive advertising? You don't seem to include that in your comparison.
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hovering_nox 999 days ago
>user tracking

You can use Google anonymously but you have to log in and leave your payment data with Kagi.

EDIT: apparently they accept crypto

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sph 999 days ago
Not very anonymous when 99% of websites on the internet use Google Analytics, so it's pretty easy to follow you around the web.
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xigoi 999 days ago
Isn't Google Analytics blocked by pretty much any ad blocker?
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smoldesu 999 days ago
True, but a bit of a moot point if both search engines will indiscriminately route you to those websites anyways. It's not like I'm opting-out of that issue by using DuckDuckGo right now.
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dot5xdev 999 days ago
Yeah, I'm strictly talking about search results. That's the main thing I care about. No ads is nice, but if I can't find information I need then that's not very useful to me.
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vunderba 999 days ago
personally I run Firefox + uBlock Origin + uBlacklist. This mean:

- no ads

- one click to permablock SEO spam sites from appearing in searches

- minimal user tracking (not logged into a google account)

Kagi would likely have a better value proposition if I did more searching on mobile though.

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dot5xdev 999 days ago
Firefox on Android runs uBlock Origin. But no uBlacklist. Kagi does have that built in.
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