SearxNG instances are not working as well these days and I want something more reliable. I will just pay a subscription. Swiss cows is pushing subscriptions and I’m good with paying. Never tried Kagi.

    • dragbone@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 month ago

      I agree but it is way too expensive for me. I use more than 10 searches per day and I’m not paying 10$ per month for search.

          • Deckname@discuss.tchncs.de
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            1 month ago

            Is it through direct financial transfers or do they use it as another search engine?

            Do you happen to know in what way yandex is affiliated with the regime?

              • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
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                1 month ago

                Users deserve access to the best possible information, not information filtered through our political lens.

                Except “the best possible information” is filtered. That’s the whole point of a search engine is to 1.Find and 2.Filter. If your search engine is turning up Russian propaganda, that is NOT “the best possible information”.

                • ganymede@lemmy.ml
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                  1 month ago

                  any nation’s major search engine is going to be turning up propaganda.

                  imo it’s better to include it & state where it came from so people can discern.

                  personally i don’t believe the entire population of any country are all bad people and increasingly siloing global citizens from eachother is only going to increase the kinds of toxic nationalism which dangerous regimes use as fuel

                  • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
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                    1 month ago

                    There’s a difference between disbelieving an entire nation of people and disbelieving a state-sponsored propaganda factory.