I Fell in Love with Kagi
a year ago
- #digital-strategy
- #technology
- #privacy
- Follow the money philosophy: Understand how apps/services make money to assess trustworthiness.
- Five archetypes of apps/services: Commercial, Genuinely Free, Freemium, Free-for-Now, FreePI.
- Commercial apps align incentives with users; example: Apple.
- Genuinely Free services like Wikipedia rely on donations and open-source support.
- Freemium apps offer basic free services with premium options; example: DropBox.
- Free-for-Now services are unsustainable; example: WhatsApp before acquisition by Meta.
- FreePI services trade privacy for free access; examples: Google, Meta, X.
- Personal strategy: Prefer commercial, genuinely free, and freemium services; avoid Free-for-Now and FreePI where possible.
- Transitioned digital life to services like Apple, Linux, Office 365, 1Password, DropBox, Signal, Mastodon, and Glass.
- Found Kagi as a commercial search engine alternative to Google, offering privacy-focused, customizable search results.
- Kagi's features: Ad-free, customizable results, algorithm tweaking, and Safari integration.
- Kagi's pricing is justified by its value and privacy benefits compared to data monetization by FreePI services.