I wrote an article comparing privacy oriented search engines' privacy policies. Would love your thoughts.

I don't think a blog named "iOSLife" belongs here. Apple is one of the worst offenders in terms of privacy violations.

- Looking at your post & comment history it becomes blatantly clear that you're the poorly written AI spreading propaganda here...
- Hi, once again just gonna ask for help identifying where my site is on a blocked list. If you can’t, then I would appreciate you stopping from saying that. Thanks! :)

I think the article appears biased because searxng appears to offer the same functionality as Kagi, in spite of being free, yet Kagi is shown to be the best in class for some reason? Also it doesn't touch on the critique that kagi having a login potentially aggregates all of your searches into one account that is stored by one company.

Kagi's privacy policy claims that “Searches are anonymous and private to you. Kagi does not log and associate searches with an account.”
SearXNG is tricky because the privacy policy comes from whatever instance you are using.
Anecdotally, I have had better results from Kagi than SearXNG. The SearXNG instance I have been testing out keeps getting rate limited and mostly shows results from Qwant and Bing.
I don't really have a bias as I am testing out all of these options and trying to find the one that works best for my family.
- Kagi can claim whatever they want in their privacy policy. Where's the code of their servers? Because I see none. How do we know they aren't keeping logs that could be easily correlated (by themselves or a third party who access their servers)?
  Even if we had the code, I would still be skeptical, we can't be sure what code are they exactly running on the server side and having an account linked to every search is just awful.
  SearXNG is anonymous while offering the very same features, if not better.

Kagi user myself. Great experience, worth the $10.

Side note: Your posts feels a bit like self-promotion 🫥

Yeah, Kagi seems pretty cool so far.
Not trying to self-promote, just looking for feedback on my findings and to see if anyone has other opinions to share around the products
- I paid for the $5 subscription with Monero and used an alias email at signup. I like it so far
I don't see how it's self-promotion if there's no profit to be made. In my book, it's no different than someone making a text post here.
- I think all of the "drama" in this thread could've been solved with me copy and pasting my words into a self post

I appreciate that you included sections of the relevant privacy policies. I like your approach.

Please run what you write through spell check. You misspelled: extremely, business, advertisers, educated, and default. The word October could be capitalized, but as part of a hypothetical search query, it could be lower case on purpose.

Lastly, Qwant is struck through in your last sentence. It's unclear if you chose that formatting because you don't recommend it (as stated earlier) or for some other reason.

Keep writing! We need more of this!

Oh yikes. Those are egregious spelling errors hahaha. Thank you for reading and the feedback!
Yes, I struckthrough Qwant since they are sending your IP to Microsoft with every search. :)
- It might be worth throwing in something at the bottom of the page explaining why you struck it through.

People aren't allowed to post their own stuff now? That's been the norm since forever.
- When does "forever" start?
Oh. Sure. I truthfully was just looking for some feedback on my findings and didn't see any rules against posting articles written by self.

FYI that site is on the cbuijs list of malicious domains

ETA : improving(.) Duckduckgo (.) Com

You're saying ioslife.dev is on a list? I did a quick search on Kagi and didn't find anything. Could you share more info about what you're talking about? Thanks!
- The list is called 'cbuijs Malicious Domains' according to my firewall logs.
  You might want to ask them to take you off the list.

I didn't even read OP's post but...
You state that Kaji is the best when actually they are clearly the worst
It's Kagi not Kaji. If you're going to criticize something at least get the name right.
If you pay them then everything you do on their site is linked directly do you.
Privacy is not anonymity... and it's a pev of mine that people confuse this.
However, you can get pretty close to anonymity paying them in crypto:
https://help.kagi.com/kagi/plans/payment-methods.html
These "articles" from unknown websites su h ad ioslife are clearly a native ads, this one for Kaji. Kaijis marketing agency has a lot of bots on this platform so it will get upvotes and but you are fooling nobody.
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- Ever see spelling errors in spam? They do that on purpose.
TIL I am a bot. :)
I also made it a point not to state anything is the best or the worst and mentioned that the choice is up to you and your threat model.
Also, thanks to @digger@lemmy.ca for pointing out my typos. I have fixed them now.
I want to reiterate that I have no affiliation with Kagi or any other search engine, I currently don't even pay for Kagi. I am just a human on the hunt for the best search engine to protect my family's privacy.
That said, I just saw your update regarding Sentry.
Looking at Kagi's Privacy Policy, there are two things to say in response to
It states that Kaji is the best when actually they are clearly the worst, they do record your IP to deliver their services and they do share your data with a notorious 3rd party tracking company- sentry.io.
"We do not log or store your IP address. Your IP address is used only temporarily when enriching location/maps searches, and is not shared with any other party."
"Anonymous logs are shared with Sentry when bugs, crashes, or warnings occur for debugging purposes."
Also:
If you pay them then everything you do on their site is linked directly do you. I.e. zero privacy.
"Searches are anonymous and private to you. Kagi does not log and associate searches with an account."

This is clearly biased. Your points against SearXNG are weak. And you purposefully ignore the huge privacy implications of needing an account to do searches.

I don't think this is written by a bot, but I'd say it's either a camouflaged ad or a rather biased article.

Edit: To be clear. I do not care that a certain company has a good privacy policy. I want verifiable facts, not unverifiable claims. Their backend is proprietary, while SearXNG is free software. There's only one entity behind that company, which could be (or turn) malicious at any moment. Meanwhile, SearXNG is hosted by multiple individuals and organizations, you could even use a different instance each time, so it's impossible to corelate your search queries.

So yeah, this is a rather biased article towards a certain company.

Thanks for your feedback. My goal was just to look through the privacy policies with this, but you bring up a good point that that might not be a good experiment and could less to false assumptions. I do wonder if Kagi has had any this party analysis to back up their claims since it is not OSS.