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Another russian disinfo laundering service.

This aspect matters and there is little comment here on this (other threads on Kagi have raised it).

Kagi’s ‘neutral’ stance on politics, their association with Yandex/the Russian state mean this will be interesting to watch.

It’s by far the best search I’ve ever used.

https://old.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/1gvcqua/psa_the_ka...

IIUC, the basis for this claim is that Kagi pays Yandex (a Russian search company) for access to Yandex's image search API. Is that the entirety of their link to Russia? If so, it seems like a stretch to accuse them of being a "Russian disinfo laundering service" (GP's words, not yours), but this is my first time hearing this, so if I'm missing something, I'm all ears.

You haven't been missing much. Just have been very sad to give up the best search after receiving that nice yellow t-shirt of theirs and not given even an option to opt out from Yandex. But war is war and even more so when its on your doorsteps. Sad story, is all.

The opt out bit would solve it for me too.

Makes total sense. Please don't take my comment as a defense of Russia. I can understand not wanting any of your money flowing into the Russian economy, especially with Russian violence so close to home.

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