So #Kagi is now partnering with #Brave, i.e. the company of Brendan Eich, who has been CEO at Mozilla for eleven days before he had to leave due to massive criticism of his homophobic views. Brave's most well-known product is a browser with its own cryptocurrency, co-designed by Eich.
A feedback post asking Kagi to reconsider has been closed by Kagi's founder Vladimir Prelovac because "Considering company x founder political views is not a factor in [their] evaluation".
https://kagifeedback.org/d/2808-reconsider-your-partnership-with-brave
Quite a controversial decision… I love Kagi though, but I don’t understand why they would want to drag Brave into this.
To better understand (and definitely not dismissing your opinion), was Brave where you drew the line as a customer or was Google, Amazon, etc also of concern where Kagi pays for services?
Brave is great, it even lets you sync your browser session without having to use an email. And their android app lets you watch youtube vid without ads and in the background.
It along librewolf are the only browsers that come with good default privacy settings.
Edit: Looks like I struck a nerve on some people lol
TL;DR: All chromium based browsers are shit. Switch to hardened firefox or librewolf
I am not sure what you understand under fingerprinting (you literally can get the same fingerprinting protection by enabling the resistFingerprinting configuration in about:config in Firefox). Also fingerprinting protection, by ifself, isn’t enough to make a browser private. Plus I am not sure how anyone can even trust Brave’s browser when they are sketchy as fuck. Not only did they do creepy stuff like url injection, but also now have those weird ads and they are also into crypto which is not a good sign. I still fail to understand why people won’t appreciate Firefox browsers. The same functionality can be achieved if you spend literally like 5 minutes on it. Is it an issue with being lazy or just being not informed about it.
Though I still do not recommend the stock firefox you can get from the official site. You’re better off installing something like Librewolf if you are someond that looks into “privacy” out of the box or hardened firefox with arkenfox’s user.js for the most privacy you probably can get without breaking literally every website you visit.
Fair enough. IMO, Brave isn’t a big enough player compared to many other companies in the enterprise space used by Kagi (both that we know of as consumers and wouldn’t know of without being an employee with knowledge of their internal SaaS agreements) that Kagi’s specific use case of Brave singularly would have been the deal breaker (for me).
Personally, getting that granular with money flow quickly becomes untenable as a consumer as every business will, to some degree, end up paying for some level of service from the companies we hope to lessen the power of. As a consumer example, I may really dislike how Google is influencing the standards of consumer data privacy in the world and choose not to pay for or use Google products/services directly, but I couldn’t imagine boycotting all companies that use Google Workspace internally for email, docs, sheets, etc.
Kagi seems to be a main player that’s opening the conversation of paying for internet search when the world is used to a standard of “free” search, so saying they can’t utilize the existing search data sources is going to make that experience dead in the water. We need ripples if we hope for change.
Edit: sudneo‘s comment actually summed up my thoughts pretty well.
In my personal opinion, such unrealistic ethical requirements end up being a reactionary choice as they will ultimately impede new - better - players to emerge and will leave the existing - worse - dominating.
the part where Brave Search API is paid, and some people (including myself) don’t want their money to contribute to Brave’s business.
To better understand (and definitely not dismissing your opinion), was Brave where you drew the line as a customer or was Google, Amazon, etc also of concern where Kagi pays for services?
I dislike Brave because they cultivated a not-so-deserved reputation. I see newcomers to privacy being recommended this and it’s just sad.
Brave is great, it even lets you sync your browser session without having to use an email. And their android app lets you watch youtube vid without ads and in the background.
It along librewolf are the only browsers that come with good default privacy settings.
Edit: Looks like I struck a nerve on some people lol
You’re comment implied it’s a good privacy centric browser, which is wrong.
It actually is, it comes with good fingerprinting protection by default.
https://privacytests.org/
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Who is the brave employee that runs it? privacytest is actually a open source test that you can run in your browser and has its own repo.
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Good fingerprinting protection != good privacy.
Alright what makes a browser good for privacy if fingerprinting does not count? (it does but I want to hear what you will say).
TL;DR: All chromium based browsers are shit. Switch to hardened firefox or librewolf
I am not sure what you understand under fingerprinting (you literally can get the same fingerprinting protection by enabling the resistFingerprinting configuration in about:config in Firefox). Also fingerprinting protection, by ifself, isn’t enough to make a browser private. Plus I am not sure how anyone can even trust Brave’s browser when they are sketchy as fuck. Not only did they do creepy stuff like url injection, but also now have those weird ads and they are also into crypto which is not a good sign. I still fail to understand why people won’t appreciate Firefox browsers. The same functionality can be achieved if you spend literally like 5 minutes on it. Is it an issue with being lazy or just being not informed about it. Though I still do not recommend the stock firefox you can get from the official site. You’re better off installing something like Librewolf if you are someond that looks into “privacy” out of the box or hardened firefox with arkenfox’s user.js for the most privacy you probably can get without breaking literally every website you visit.
I drew the line at Brave.
Fair enough. IMO, Brave isn’t a big enough player compared to many other companies in the enterprise space used by Kagi (both that we know of as consumers and wouldn’t know of without being an employee with knowledge of their internal SaaS agreements) that Kagi’s specific use case of Brave singularly would have been the deal breaker (for me).
Personally, getting that granular with money flow quickly becomes untenable as a consumer as every business will, to some degree, end up paying for some level of service from the companies we hope to lessen the power of. As a consumer example, I may really dislike how Google is influencing the standards of consumer data privacy in the world and choose not to pay for or use Google products/services directly, but I couldn’t imagine boycotting all companies that use Google Workspace internally for email, docs, sheets, etc.
Kagi seems to be a main player that’s opening the conversation of paying for internet search when the world is used to a standard of “free” search, so saying they can’t utilize the existing search data sources is going to make that experience dead in the water. We need ripples if we hope for change.
Edit: sudneo‘s comment actually summed up my thoughts pretty well.