Freeman

There’s actually a lot of crazy shit you can do with EMF.

Look up Van Eck Phreaking. The theory was developed on CRT monitors but can be used on LCD as well where you use the monitor as a listening device.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Eck_phreaking

Same. Love Kagi.

It is. But their client only connects to beeper bridges. So you gotta roll your own client too

Yeah I got my invite last week. But between the time it was announced and looking into it, I’ve balked and won’t use it.

That said I’m considering self hosting

https://github.com/beeper/self-host

Yeah. The bar was so low it was a black hole for sure.

Edge is at least solid. In an environment like work where privacy is nonexistent I use edge. Mainly because I have/work in multiple azure tenants and this allows me to maintain SSO and separation while still easily switching and syncing data. It’s leagues beyond IE.

That said, beyond that very specific use case (but it is a pretty big use case), I really don’t have much use for it.

Interesting. I search almost for a living. I find results on Kagi to be better. That said my searches are almost always more detailed.

For example I would never type in such a generic search. I would almost always start with the make/model of the phone, type of connection (ie: wifi, Bluetooth, LTE) and go from there at the absolute least.

Correct. You can go lower and pay per search as well. And set a warning and hard stop limit.

I do a LOT of searching for work. So the 1000/month is plenty and use it on all devices.

They have features others don’t as well. Such as blocking certain domains from returning results. For example I filter out answers.Microsoft.com because that’s their question boards and it’s rare that anything useful is said there etc.

They also support custom bangs similar to ddg.

I find that I get better results for my job and faster with Kagi. So it’s worth the cost for me.

Ah. Missed those. But I’m pretty sure it’s not available for windows, Linux or android

You are paying them for the service and the costs to make a custom search engine. The only thing they keep track of is the number of times you queried the service. They don’t track queries or even see them. You don’t have a search history and can’t see previous searches because it’s not tracked

There are no ads. They aren’t just proxying your search like DuckDuckGo.

That is because of their business model, you are the customer.

You don’t HAVE to use a real email either. vlad even says so. But it’s needed to collect payment. Otherwise they don’t track you searches, or even see them. The fees are for their operations and development.

It’s MacOS only. But is nice