If it can automate for me navigating to Reddit, then modifying the url to old.Reddit, and hopefully not accidentally clicking on the page and needing to reverse back or get redirected based on the content, then that’s probably worth 10 dollars a month already
In general is that you can't ever trust them apart from a few very large ones.
A redirect extension is ripe for the usual blackmarket shenanigans.
I have my own omni extension made up of copy pasted open source extensions. I normally wouldn’t go through the effort but web browsing is crucial and frequent enough to be worth it and it took less than a weekend to get it up and running, especially with Plasmo. It’s also another reason to prefer Firefox and MV2
It's the auto-update behaviour of browsers that should probably be criticised here, rather than having general distrust of all extension authors.
But it's not just reddit, you can do like a custom regex replace on any domain IIRC.
I signed up for the $10 plan, before they introduced unlimited searches. One month I went over and thought ok, I'm not really ok with making more than 10. A few weeks later they switched to unlimited.
The lens feature is great. I have one for searching my company's public documentation etc.
The redirect thing is great too, it can rewrite URLs on the fly, e.g. Reddit -> old.reddit.
I have used other search engines in the past, like ddg for a long period, and others. I always ended up just doing !g on every search.
Kagi is the first where I don't notice I'm using another search engine and actually if I'm on Google I notice my experience is worse!
Great to see updates like this, in the months I've been using it it has improved so much already.