• sir_reginald@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      No. Kagi's fault is needing an account, a unique identifier which all searches could be correlated to.

      SearXNG could leak your IP if your VPN provider was keeping logs? Definitely. And so does Kagi. Tor could be attacked by a three letter agency and compromise your .onion connection to SearXNG? Definitely. And it would be easier to de-anonimyze you when connecting to Kagi, which doesn't have an onion domain. Do you need to give SearXNG your email and/or payment information? Not at all. But Kagi requires it. Can you look like two completely different users when doing two queries to SearXNG? Easy. Not possible with Kagi. Do we have the server's code? We do for SearXNG instances. We don't have Kagi's.

      I think it's pretty clear the privacy compromise here.