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Re:Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups by isodev on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @06:36PM (#46449510)
But if you truly care about privacy or any kind of control, just don’t use kagi
Re:Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups by jjtheblunt on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @08:14PM (#46450223)
why would you say that?
Re:Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups by bmacho on Thursday January 01, 2026 @03:47AM (#46452413)
Giving them your browsing history, attached to an account, for what? To store and remember a URL?

You can ask claude to write you a 10 lines userscript that integrates with google/ddg/kagi/whatever is your search engine, and hides the websites from the result page.

Generally, you shouldn't do server side what you can do on client side

Re:Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups by DANmode on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @09:44PM (#46450784)
Say more, or say less.
Re:Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups by neodymiumphish on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @09:57PM (#46450866)
Uh, what? Wanna explain why?
Re:Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups by reciprocity on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @10:23PM (#46451003)
How does one make a comment like this, I wonder, and not substantiate.
Re:Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups by wolvoleo on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @11:09PM (#46451214)
I assume you mean because you have to be logged in in order to use kagi?

They do have anonimised logins for this though: https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-privacy-pass which is a pretty good mitigation IMO. As it's a paid service of course proving you paid is a must.

And as for control, I can't agree there. Kagi offers more control than any other search engine through its lenses and the ability to influence the ranking of search results from specific sites.

I don't use their service at the moment, I'm pretty ok with my self hosted SearXNG and I like being able to customise the look and feel there too. But Kagi is excellent as search engines go.

Re:Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups by cik on Thursday January 01, 2026 @02:40AM (#46452116)
Appreciate the SearXNG mention. Learned something new, thank you!
Re:Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups by prmoustache on Thursday January 01, 2026 @06:22AM (#46453232)
Note that if you are using the same instance of SearXNG every time and it is not shared with many others you haven't gained anything in term of privacy. You'd need to auto shut down and spin up new instances on others servers/ip/providers on regular short intervals to do so or use a constellation of hundreds of instanced served randomly from the same fqdn.
Re:Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups by wolvoleo on Thursday January 01, 2026 @09:04AM (#46454206)
True but I'm not doing it for privacy.

I'm doing it for having a clean adfree experience, having multi-engine searches and having control over which engine and features it uses. And it also helps really well against search engine enshittification by raising search results higher when they're received from multiple engines so you have less of the clickbait crap that search engines promote these days.

It has some amazing features where it can search much more specific sites if you search for things like books, movies etc instead of treating everything like a general search. And everything can be tailored and tweaked.