Today we are announcing a new privacy feature coming to Kagi Search. Privacy Pass is an authentication protocol first introduced by Davidson and recently standardized by the IETF as RFCs. At the same time, we are announcing the immediate availability of Kagi’s Tor onion service.
In general terms, Privacy Pass allows “Clients” (generally users) to authenticate to “Servers” (like Kagi) in such a way that while the Server can verify that the connecting Client has the right to access its services, it cannot determine which of its rightful Clients is actually connecting. This is particularly useful in the context of a privacy-respecting paid search engine, where the Server wants to ensure that the Client can access the services, and the Client seeks strong guarantees that, for example, the searches are not associated with them.
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Well this is legit. I recently cancelled my kagi subscription for privacy reasons. This might make me reconsider. Is anyone here with access willing to test it out and report back?
I have it; it works (even in private browsing windows so long as you visit the site logged in, in a non-private browsing window first).
Awesome. Also be sure to use a vpn and and extension to randomize your browser fingerprint!
The extension itself is open source and per them (I haven’t verified on my own) actually takes steps to combat the browser fingerprint problem; so I think it’s really just the VPN side of things that most people need to worry about (at least from the perspective of disassociating their search history and the sites they visit).