I’ve considered using kagi before, but I think this blog post finally convinced me not too: https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html
The quick summary is that they aren’t really privacy focused at all, don’t comply with GDPR, and generally seem ok misleading their customers. The lack-of-privacy doesn’t bother me itself, but misleading customers really troubles me. Why would I trust them with X when I know they’ve lied with Y?
Here’s an easy one: Vlad claims they are GDPR compliant. However, they do not provide a way to download stored personal info, as required by GDPR. This is a contradiction
I would beg to disagree. The screenshots show that I think there is very little information to be downloaded to begin with because Kagi does not collect it, which is true. That does not mean that our policy is to ignore GDPR requests, that is a ridiculous inference to make.
The article you point to is a perception of one person, unfortunately sharing screenshots out of context to create a negative narrative and exploiting a fact that we run a 100% transparent business where you can ask the CEO literally anything directly.
Our policies have always and will belong in kagi.com/privacy and not on random websites. And it is hard enough to do what Kagi does even without misinformation shared in bad faith, so I'd ask you to please not do that going forward.
The quick summary is that they aren’t really privacy focused at all, don’t comply with GDPR, and generally seem ok misleading their customers. The lack-of-privacy doesn’t bother me itself, but misleading customers really troubles me. Why would I trust them with X when I know they’ve lied with Y?