Privacy Pass white screen

Temanor

When I try to open kagi while Privacy Pass is enabled, I just get a white screen.
Searching straight from the url bar does not work either.
Does not matter if I use "on" or "incognito only". Both result in a white screen.
I tried reentering the session link, but nothing changed.

I use Zen Browser on Windows 11.

I expected to be able to search with Privacy Pass enabled.

Temanor

nobodywasishere

Do you see anything in the console? Does it work in other browsers on your computer?

Temanor

nobodywasishere

dO9G8

Hi,
I believe to have the very same issue. I'm on Firefox (latest) on Ubuntu. I am not logged into any Kagi session and only use the privacy pass extension on the machine in question. The extension is enabled as with the previous poster. The same issue occurs both in normal and private browsing mode.
Sending a GET request to https://kagi.com/search?q=anything, is answered by the Kagi server with an HTTP 200 but the response body is empty (literally 0 bytes). Accordingly, there have been no JS errors. This has been a problem for a few weeks I'd say but I'm not sure.

Technical Details (with select headers)

Request (no cookies were sent):

GET /search?q=anything

Host: kagi.com
X-Kagi-PrivacyPass-Client: true
Authorization: PrivateToken token="-RXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"

Response:

Status: 200

www-authenticate: PrivateToken challenge=-RXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX, token-key=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx=
x-cloud-trace-context: b6db0b121d86c32f91abc0d93c82f39c;o=1
content-type: text/html
server: Google Frontend
content-length: 0
via: 1.1 google

Kindly check the cloud trace context if you still can. The favicon.ico fetches fine (200 with expected content).

Happy to provide more details including (censored) HAR.
I hope this can be resolved soon - it would really help me.

blissmachine

I've also been hitting this issue for several weeks now; the privacy pass extension has been completely unusable in that time.
The problem is reproducible both on and off VPN, and irrespective of DNS configuration (I've checked against multiple public resolvers).
I've confirmed it also occurs when using a fresh Firefox profile with no other extensions installed.

Kagi Privacy Pass version: 1.0.12
Browser: Firefox 152.0.4
OS: archlinux

Request headers:

GET /search?q=test HTTP/3
Host: kagi.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Sec-GPC: 1
Connection: keep-alive
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
Sec-Fetch-Dest: document
Sec-Fetch-Mode: navigate
Sec-Fetch-Site: none
Sec-Fetch-User: ?1
Priority: u=0, i
X-Kagi-PrivacyPass-Client: true
Authorization: PrivateToken token="XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
TE: trailers

Response headers:

HTTP/3 200 
www-authenticate: PrivateToken challenge=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX, token-key=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
vary: origin, access-control-request-method, access-control-request-headers
access-control-allow-origin: *
access-control-expose-headers: www-authenticate
x-cloud-trace-context: 05803df7bdedcd9029693cee072fae89
date: Fri, 10 Jul 2026 19:48:20 GMT
content-type: text/html
server: Google Frontend
content-length: 0
via: 1.1 google
alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=2592000

Just as @dO9G8 highlights above, the main query response payload is always empty but the favicon is returned without issue.