Re:Mullvad Leta: A search engine used in the Mullvad Browser
by unshavedyak on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @03:29PM
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> but why would they even do that when there are a lot of very easy methods of profiling users available to them?
That's fair, but the GCP was mostly what i was relying to.
Fundamentally do you dislike Kagi's offering more than Mulvad (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36402162) on the privacy front? Clearly the two companies have different goals, so i'm not trying to equate them. Just curious.
Also what search engine _do_ you use then? I feel like all of them would be disqualified?
I didn't mention but they also use search results from google.
1) A direct contract with Kagi: Pay less for our services in exchange for user's data ("anonymized"). And google has a lot of services that Kagi may benefit greatly: servers, low latency to google search results, "personalized" google search results without ads and the various sheganigans google uses to promote websites, up to the point where all searches actually comes directly from google.
2) No contract, just get my IP and the search string the Kagi server asks of google at the same time. I don't think there are enough simultaneous searches on Kagi to actually prevent IP-to-search-string pairing. Then do the google-ad-to-IP match on the target sites that I visit.