Kagi (paid search engine): "Peertube results now show up in regular searches, plus you can filter by "source" to see more Peertube content."
(kagi.com)
from mesamunefire@piefed.social to fediverse@lemmy.world on 07 May 17:38
https://piefed.social/post/729852
from mesamunefire@piefed.social to fediverse@lemmy.world on 07 May 17:38
https://piefed.social/post/729852
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/29244629
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“Paid search engine” <— no thanks.
Suit yourself. They aren’t perfect but I find value in them so far.
freemium pls :cry:
although good freemium examples like proton mail for example seem too good to be true with free vpn and all the jazz. always such a shady feeling when using such services
They have a trial for 100 searches iirc. And they also occasionally share referral links to subscribers that are 3 month premium subs to share with friends so they can try
This is how I discovered I search around 20 times a day. Burned through it pretty quick haha
If you’re not paying, you’re the product.
That’s only when doing business with corporations, but there’s also the option of open source (e.g. SearxNG).
Or do you consider yourself the product when using Lemmy?
Do you think Lemmy is free? Your admin is paying, and trusting you to donate to help out.
Uh, what a weird message. It’s not only unrelated to what I said but it reads like an attempt to twist my words. On top of it, it’s totally wrong: Lemmy is free. I can self host Lemmy on a raspberry pi for exactly 0€.
The instance I use… Is also free. I donate because I choose to, but if my friend can’t afford to donate they can still use the instance. Nobody is profiting from it.
What I did talk about is products and doing business with corporations. With Lemmy there’s no product, whether you pay or not. With SearxNG (which many people self host, and again, is free) you’re not the product, regardless of how much you pay.
That’s what I was replying to - your comment is way off the mark and very condescending: I don’t need to be mansplained that I should donate to the software I already donate to. Note donate rather than pay for.
Dang, where can I get a free Raspberry Pi and internet connection? That sounds awesome!
This is exactly my point. It’s like when people call it “free healthcare”.
Don’t run it on a raspberry pi, run it on the same computer you use to access the Google search you are happy to call “free”.
Edit: Actually yes, both this and the healthcare need to be free - otherwise you’re grossly misunderstanding one of the key parts of the mission of open source. I pay for this so that whoever can’t afford it can access for exactly zero. Same for the healthcare - you might say it’s “not free” and everyone should contribute but what to you or me is nothing, could mean that grandma doesn’t get to eat. So yeah, free access needs to be a possibility. That’s the mission. I contribute to open source software and donate where I can so others who don’t have the knowledge or money can access it for free. There can’t be a price.
My computer isn’t free, nor is my internet connection, nor is my electricity.
When did I call Google searches “free”?
Exhausting. If you don’t consider anything in the world is free, why did you bother saying Lemmy isn’t free?
Plus this argument is rubbish, it’s like saying “my car isn’t free, nor is the road, nor is my petrol, so the beach isn’t free”.
Just because you have to buy clothes to go out for a walk, it doesn’t make it any less free.
What are you trying to argue here? That the term “free” shouldn’t exist because in a capitalist society everything has dependencies? (I still don’t get how that relates to my original post which was purely about doing business with corporations).
Then fine, Lemmy isn’t free, neither is the sun, or going for a walk. You win. Good day sir.
You really only think in black and white, huh?
Sad.
Yes I do. I’m totally the one who can’t understand that “free” is a nuanced concept and something can be free when there are costs but they are externalised.
And yet you can’t fathom the difference between hosting and maintaining something, versus consuming something.
Enlighten me, why do you think I can’t tell the difference? Is it because as a maintainer I want to provide something for free? Do you see “consumers” of free content as leeches?
Because you think hosting Lemmy yourself is the same monetary cost as doing a Google search.
You’re funny. 😂 What I actually think is that your mind reading skills are terrible because I never said anything even remotely similar to that.
I (rather obviously) am talking there about the Google search service, not a single query, as Google doesn’t disappear after a single query.
I’m not sure what you’re pointing at though? Surely hosting Google search is more expensive than hosting Lemmy when you’re insinuating otherwise?
You’ve got it backwards.
How do I host Lemmy on my iPhone? How do I host it on a Library computer?
You can host lemmy on an Android phone but not on an iPhone, which is pretty locked down - you’d have to convince Tim Cook to open the OS.
You can install it fairly easily on a library computer as long as you get permission from the library. You can’t install things on computers you don’t have admin rights to; other examples of computers you can’t use to host Lemmy are an ATM on the street, a self checkout machine at the supermarket, or the cockpit computer of an Airbus A350.
So I’d have to spend money on additional equipment, is what you’re saying.
Which is not true of using Google.
Get it yet?
You’re still missing the point, you’re comparing hosting vs using.
If you wanted to host Google, you’d have to spend a fuckton of money on servers. If you want to host Lemmy, it’s unfortunate that you don’t own a computer (this puts things into perspective) but the requirements are absolutely minimal.
If you want to use Google, you have to pay the same as for using Lemmy, or searxNG, zero. However with Google you will pay with your data, whereas with SearxNG you have the option to donate, and the option to self host, if you choose. You don’t have the option to self-host something like Google unless your last name is something like Bezos.
We’re only talking about hosting because you offered it up as a way of accessing it for “free”.
Nope. With Google, you pay with your data. With Lemmy or SearxNG, you pay with money, or you enjoy the benefits of socializing the cost (just like “free” healthcare)
Neither are free.
Fine, whatever. You can’t ever search on SearxNG without paying. You win.
I’ve seen your comment history and it’s full of negative comments because you’re just trolling everyone. My only mistake in this conversation has been to reply to you when you’ve only been saying things you don’t even believe yourself just to troll me. Sigh.
If that’s what you need to tell yourself.
Ironic considering the pinned post on .world is the admins asking for donations and pretty much everyone is saying “no”
You misunderstood the pinned post; it’s soliciting donations for core Lemmy development, not for the .world instance.
The core devs use donations to the project to fund their tankie .ml instance, which is why they’re getting pushback. There is zero comparable pushback among the community towards funding .world or other instances.
Functionally there’s no difference.
The person I replied argued that you are obligated to donate if you want to keep Lemmy free. Right now the Lemmy developers are asking for donations, and people are saying no.
The developers are openly communist, and if you want to use Lemmy you’ll have to learn to live .ml, it’s not going to change.
There is a massive functional difference to anyone with two braincells to rub together.
The core devs can (and should) step in front of a bus (or tank) tomorrow; the core project will just fork, and LW and the other non-triad instances will do fine without them. I’ve had no issue on Lemmy blocking .ml client-side.
The only reminder of the triad’s existence is infiltrator trolls who make alts on other instances to post bad-faith arguments glazing the core devs.
There’s a massive cognitive dissonance, certainly. And your brains are practically smoking, trying to juggle the contractions.
IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS
Write me a better ending the Game of Thrones in five sentences
They are openly authoritarian “communists”, you don’t need to simp for China, Russia or NK to be a communist. But they do and they leverage the .ml Instance to do so. This is the point of contention for most (including myself) donating to them, and it was brought up in those threads numerous times. If they put in place a new admin team that was as unbiased and fair as possible, they would massively increase in donations. They won’t though because they know exactly what they’re doing with .ml to further their personal political ideology.
To paraphrase one user on one of those threads “Devs should do dev work and not mod work, admins/mods should do admin/mod work and not dev work”.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie
A special irony in it, because the “no we won’t help” crowd is calling the dev base Russian shills.
But they’re still using the “Russian” service? Even though they poo-poo Yandex for also being a “Russian” service?
Lemmyites are just as baby brained as the Reddit community they fell out of. Absolutely embarrassing.
I’m not paying for my self hosted searxng and I have more control over my search than any kagi user.
Well you are paying for the hosting you’re just not paying for the service
It’s very lightweight, any toaster could run a single user searxng instance.
If you’d like to give away any free toasters with hackable embedded microcontrollers to prove your point here, I’m a willing recipient and will attempt setup of a searx instance.
if you are paying, you are still the product
Upvoted.
I have a counterpoint to those claiming that paid are better. By using a privacy oriented search engine, then they don’t know exactly who you are. In theory just your IP. Maybe fingerprinting.
When paying they know exactly who you are. You have to trust them.
So in one case you can protect yourself, in the other you have to trust them.
Also, Kagi also uses the Russian index Yandex 😑
Kagi Privacy Pass
Interesting, thanks for sharing
Log into browser extension with kagi account
generate tokens
use said tokens
How does this ensure privacy? The tokens are associated to your account from the start.
There’s a link in the second paragraph to the technical details, including source code for the implementation and documentation for the required infrastructure.
But the tl;dr is that the tokens aren’t associated to your account. Unless you were able to snoop on the original request that generated the tokens (in which case, you’ve got bigger issues!), there’s no way to prove that a token is related to a specific account. A token only proves that an authorization server once granted access to some account.
Edit: Wikipedia has a good intro:
Edit 2: You should not be catching downvotes. You had a reasonable question.
I’m reminded of this mindset from the crypto scam surge.
Points at technical documents
“Well, it says it’s secure so quit arguing that it’s not secure”
Typically followed by
“If someone traced you/robbed you, then you were just doing it wrong”
Like, we’ve got high level white house officials feeding national security secrets to the Israelis because they just blindly implemented a “secure” Signal extension. So I guess I shouldn’t be surprised people don’t look past the cover.
But come on. “You can just buy some tokens and then you’re secure” is painfully naive.
I’m out here trying to answer reasonable questions techie folks might have about the most promising possibility I’ve seen so far for getting our normie families off of Google.
What are you here for? Calling people naive pseudo-scammers? Get out of here.
Fine for you. I’m just glad there’s an option besides “sell your soul” and “invest hundreds of hours and dollars into self-hosting”.
There is a free trial and there was 1 month for free 2 months ago. You can try it and see if you think its worth the price
I tried it and i personally believe its not worth the price, but testing it is better than just refusing the concept from the start
More like yes please, I get better results and better customization, and no ads or paid results.
It makes my life easier and speeds my workflows up. And unlike free alternatives I almost never find myself reverting to Google.
If free alternatives make you Fever to Google, why not just use Google? It’s always free
I love to mock people who use the library by shouting “If you’re not the payer then you’re the product!”
Westerners are so baby-brained on this shit. Kagi can take your money and still spy on you. Yandex can not take your money and still not bother caching your search history, because there’s no good way for them to monetize it. Nevermind GitHub or Wikipedia or literally any other public good being hosted on any website anywhere.
The delusion that you’re safe using a free service is matched only by the delusion that you’re protected because you paid someone money.
I’ve used them about a year and glad to see this kind of improvement. They are not perfect but still much better than the free options so far.
Only concern I’ve had has been around the AI stuff they are providing… So far it’s optional and a separate piece from the normal search. Time will tell there I suppose.
At the very least their AI Integration Philosophy has a good and nuanced view on the topic. So as long as they actually stick to that those ideas when integrating features it should be fine.
Kagi is goshin’ awesome.
good stuff! this is the exposure we need
I use Yandex a lot now for not censoring me. Maybe I’ll have to try this.
I’m not a spy or part of the government, but Yandex is Russian… I tried them like 10 years ago, but I wouldn’t take my chances with them.
Its a search engine, what are they going to do, give some guys search history to Putin?
I generally use it for finding streaming sites.
Yandex has plenty of services just like Google. They have an email service, cloud storage, etc.
I’ll only switch to yandex if it’s obvious that Google (via startpage) is censoring my results. Or if I’m looking for a torrent or something.
Ya that is the bulk of my use, streaming sites and such.
It is funny to see people relentlessness stanning a paid service that’s built on a notoriously fraud prone crypto stack, then getting paranoid about something about as sophisticated as Lexus Nexus because it’s hosted out of Evil Country.
I hope nobody here bothers to interogate where their torrents are being hosted from too closely.
Does anyone still think their data isn’t being sold even if they pay for a service? Plus now it’s associated to your payment information. These are the same guys that spent all their runway funding on Tshirts, I don’t think they’re the sharpest knives in the drawer.
Baseless.
You can use privacy pass and pay in crypto
I’m not fathoming what Privacy Pass gains you, it’s tokens generated from your account, the chain of possession is obvious throughout. The tokens get used up and removed from your account and the logged-in browser extension generates more, but there’s no “privacy” involved there.
Fair enough on the crypto.
The tokens can’t be traced to the account and are batch generated so you can’t be deanonymized by correlation. They aren’t stored in the account, but locally, in fact Kagi can (and they say they will) just sell the tokens directly, as they aren’t linked at all to an account
You obviously didn’t read how privacy pass works
Kagi literally documents how this works in their blog post about it: blog.kagi.com/kagi-privacy-pass
Perhaps you should start reading before writing?
Very possible they’re too small to have a meaningful contingent of buyers. But I wouldn’t bank on it.
Apparently we’re in the minority. Everyone here is sure it’s all aboveboard and shipshape.
I love Kagi and gladly pay for it. Nice devs too.
Do they have the equivalent for Lemmy?
E: Found it using Kagi… It just wasn’t turned on for me.
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Lol.
Any service requires investment, though. What pays Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, etc.?
Good shill.
You didn’t answer.
Yes I did.
Using Kagi genuinely makes me happier, if only because I don’t have to look at a ton of garbage before I find what I need. It’s pleasant to use.