“Should we not be buying VW, BMW, Siemens and Bayer technology and products today because they participated in holocaust and directly collaborated with Hitler?” – CEO of Kagi when given feedback re: Brave partnership
“Should we not be buying VW, BMW, Siemens and Bayer technology and products today because they participated in holocaust and directly collaborated with Hitler?”
No actually, you shouldn’t. Thanks for asking.
Volkswagen was started by Hitler. It was designed to sell affordable cars to public. It actually ran at a loss during this period.
After the war the British turned it into the commercial entity it is today.
I’d argue Volkswagen is freed of its original form, when it was effectively gutted and rebuilt by the British.
Either way, buy a second hand car. Win for the environment and helps cut into corporate profits.
their CEO also moderates the discussion on Kagi’s Discord. he’s been removing criticism by queer folks, while - the last time I’ve checked before I’ve left their group - not moderating replies like “stop shoving LGBTQ down our throats”.
https://nyan.lol/@zicklepop/111716138453426218
edit: also their response regarding a request to add a “don’t do it” widget to suicide searches basically boils down to “but if we make a moral choice now, we’ll have to do more moral choices in the future!”, which is… suboptimal. https://kagifeedback.org/d/865-suicide-results-should-probably-have-a-dont-do-that-widget-like-google/
God damn it.
I am a paying subscriber to Kagi because the search results are excellent and there are no ads, so of course you show me a thread on “we should maybe add a small message to suicidal users telling them there is help for them” which then reads like a truth-social propaganda thread, filled to the brim with “helping people is a slippery slope!!! muh freedoms!!” arguments.
Ah fuck, I’ve been using Kagi but of course their CEO is a reich-wing asshat.
Anybody know of any other options? I’m not going back to Google.
Ive been having pretty good time with searxng
Are you self-hosting or using a public instance?
Wow what a social drama for a search tool . People are bored af
Nah, as a paying customer of Kagi and someone who cares about how I find information online, this is not about drama, it’s about making informed decisions. In my case, the informed decision to cancel my subscription.
Also for a few of us who were considering a Kagi subscription, an informed decision to stay with our current search providers instead
