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• @jibsaram@68k.social 2026-05-06 08:12

  @jorijn@toot.community I think some (groups of) people tend to throw the baby out with the bathwater and stick with much worse options. I'm not saying there aren't potential issues around relying on Yandex, but what are we comparing it to? The recurring issue I see is that certain (groups of) people hide behind or use an excuse to not make the best-most choices by having much higher and unrealistic expectations applied to "the alternative" choice than they do the (billionaire owned, privacy invading, stealing, citizen bombing supporting, monopoly, etc.) default. The dominant search engine is Google, I'm pretty sure you already know about some of the awful stuff they've been directly contributing to. Duckduckgo is better, you might think? But they heavily depend on Bing as their primary source of search results (besides the fancy stuff they sprinkle on top, which comes from other places too), which us a Microsoft product. Long list of "Democracy" introducing adventures they've directly supported over the years, just to name one kind of fun thing they've contributed to. I totally support the idea of comnunicating directly with @kagihq@mastodon.social about the improvements we'd like to see from them, including which partnerships we'd like to see more and less of. There's always room for improvement. But I'll always recommend that we keep what we're comparing something to in mind. I like to set realistic expectations, and work from there. I obviously don't think Kagi is evil (even though I wish they'd offer a package without all that AI garbage, as I feel icky for paying for it), but if because less than 2% of their search results being provided by Yandex somehow makes them evil, I'd still continue to pay for their service, as I know the alternatives are demonstrably more evil in every way you look at it, especially when applying the same expectations to them. That's just simple math, isn't it? 😄

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