I think it’s important to note that Kagi uses Yandex, besides others, as a provider and pays them for it. Yandex is Russian owned. Might not be a deciding factor for everyone, but I personally think we shouldn’t pay money towards Russia. And the US for that matter…

This has been brought up multiple times and the Kagi CEO(?), Vlad, said this won’t change and Kagi doesn’t care about geopolitical stuff and just wants to offer the best search engine. Which is fair, but I think not supporting a tyrannical, war hungry government is important.

Duckduckgo and Startpage aren’t in “advert free tier”, yet they arguably have it even better. You can opt out of adds with them for free and without a hassle. It’s in the settings.

So that’s arguably far better.

Didn’t Brendan Eich, the CEO of Brave, recently come out in support of Trump or some bullshit like that? I can’t remember what it was, but it was a huge red flag.

I mean, he already had donated thousands to anti-LGBT groups for years.

Edit -
This is what I was thinking of:
https://lemmy.world/post/24930257