Provide .onion link for Tor users

f321x_

@Vlad after using Kagi for around 6 months now the missing of this feature still impacts me. I try to use the Tor Browser as much as possible to archive good privacy when browsing, unfortunately i can't use Kagi as most of the time i get a 403 response. This is really annoying and it would be great to be able to use Tor either directly with a onion link or at least make it possible to use the normal clearnet Kagi without getting a 403 😃

Vlad

f321x_ This is completely new to use and we do not know what this entails from a technology implementation perspective so we would ideally like to see more demand for this first.

bauruine

Vlad
There is a tool to create a onion mirror of a clearnet site https://tpo.pages.torproject.net/onion-services/onionspray/. It works as a reverse proxy to your site and is used among others by the BBC, The Intercept and Brave.

The main issue is that you block most of the Tor exits with a HTTP error 403
Error: Forbidden Your client does not have permission to get URL / from this server. If this is easier to fix please do it. That would make an onion service less needed.

Vlad

bauruine

you block most of the Tor exits with a HTTP error 403

It is not us, but our cloud provider{ GCP). I think this entire thread is in an effort to find a solution although it is not clear how would an onion address solve it, if the resources are still hosted on GCP?

lillian

Hi, if it is not possible to fix Google's load balancer blocking Tor/VPNs, I would really like to see an onion domain for Kagi.

While I have used Tor for privacy/anonymity in the past, I am continuing to use it to contribute to the network - in simple terms, the more people use Tor for their day-to-day browsing, the safer any given user is.

I would have suggested the Enterprise Onion Toolkit, of which the aforementioned Onionspray seems to be a modern fork.

Vlad it is not clear how would an onion address solve it, if the resources are still hosted on GCP?

I'm not very familiar with GCP's services, but ideally if you run Onionspray next to your other services hosted on GCP, it would see you requesting the kagi.com domain rather than the Tor exit, so it wouldn't block the request.

xkc7

I would also love to see native Tor support. In addition to Duckduckgo, Startpage recently launched its onion service. As I regularly use the Tor Browser, this would be one of my top features. I don't think an onion service requires too much effort but I could be wrong.

xkc7

I'm not sure if this fits your needs, but there is also an excellent article on how to set up a Tor service using alt-svc by Jonah Aragon (https://www.jonaharagon.com/posts/securing-services-with-tor-and-alt-svc/).

f321x_

For me its really a show stopper now, can't really use Kagi in tor browser as most exit relays are blocked and other search engines like DDG work fine. Please consider users of Tor, would especially make sense for Kagi as the user has to sign up. So Tor would provide some privacy here.

meskio

I use Tor Browser as one of my main browsers, and the fact that often kagi gives a 403 error is very annoying and makes me reconsider if kagi is the right option for me. Would be nice if either kagi finds a way so we can use the service over Tor.

If the onion address is set up contacting the kagi servers directly, without passing over the GCP http servers, it will give Tor users an option to bypass the blockade and be able to use the service.

duncancmt

This feature is also important to me for the same reasons that everybody has already stated. It's kinda unusable that Kagi is 403ing all the time when used from Tor

f321x_

Any updates on this? My yearly subscription is ending soon and i love Kagi, but this is crucial for me to be able to continue using it.

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