The suicide thing, to me, sounds completely reasonable. I am also extemely skeptical that thing has any effect at all (in Google, for example).

By the way, this whole debacle is honestly very silly in my opinion. Do we really expect them to start being fully clean and moral, and to not give any money to any party which does immoral things? Then why pay Google for their API, why use AWS/GCP, or let’s go even further, any entity in US (or Russia, or China, or most of EU,etc.) pays taxes and funds a military-industrial complex which is responsible for far worse than opposing same sex marriage. But we really draw the line at using Brave API?

Things need to be put in context. Is it better that a new search engine will exist, that protects privacy, that just provides search and actively opposes tracking on the internet, that can provide people with a plural set of information? The answer for me is yes, and these unrealistic expectations are very shortsighted in this perspective. I am very happy that Kagi pays google API for search, even if I hate Google and almost everything it stands for and I refuse to use any of their products. The benefits outweight the damages in the wider battle.