Today we are announcing a new privacy feature coming to Kagi Search.

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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  • @[email protected]English
    2•5 days ago

    Yeah, I read that blog some time ago, and I disagree with a lot of it. Either way, I find kagi to be very transparent, and to be honest they “telling you” in non-legal conversation means nothing (I.e. Vlad answering “we use X, Y, Z”). This is why I care about facts and about legal documents. The privacy policy is what they will be held accountable for and that is what I take as a reference, for example.

    Similarly I agree about this feature. This is just a way to walk the walk, and to be really on the forefront on privacy.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•5 days ago

      I have found a Vlad to be frank, but not transparent. Big difference.

      I agree with you that transparency is a positive trait, which is why I was frustrated when he made his website less transparent after people complained about the Yandex partnership.

      I did find a different post on Lemmy that talks about [Kagi hiding their sources], though. This post is incredibly thorough, and does an excellent job of undoing Kagi’s attempt to memory-hole the information about which sources they use.

      This makes it all the more frustrating that Vlad refuses to re-add them, instead asking to know why we would care.

      I hope you’d agree that hiding information is the opposite of being transparent about it!

      I agree that legally binding documents, or at least official statements made on the blog, probably carry more weight than the CEO shooting the shit on random social media, but the CEO’s words aren’t meaningless. When trust is involved (and before today, trust was extremely important), it means a whole lot.