Vlad sleach The new version should have a setting for what the search engine set in Safari is. If this is set to DDG then the extension should not redirect any Google links. We will check.
nanoscrew @sleach you're right about the cause, looks like any "google.com" url that has a "q=<something>" parameter will be redirected to Kagi, even if it's not on Google Search.
leokennis What I did that fixed the issue: From Settings.app deny the Kagi extension all access Go to the search engine you’ve set in Safari settings that you want redirected to Kagi (or, just do a search in Safari) From the search results page, open the Kagi extension and allow it access to this site Safari will ask if you want to allow access for 1 day or forever, click forever but then do not click “forever for all sites” but only “forever on DuckDuckGo” (or whatever search engine you have set)
seajay1221 leokennis this works, thank you. I’m shocked you can’t revoke individual domains natively from within the extension easily, but this workaround - for the people who invest the time to find out about it - helps.
nanoscrew @sleach @leokennis a new macOS extension (2.2.1) is now available on the App Store, and it prevents google url hijacking for non-search urls. It's only redirecting to Kagi if you navigate to a google url where the path starts with /search.
nanoscrew seajay1221 I was shocked too when I realized it was impossible in Safari extensions without granting significantly more permissions to the extension 🫤 . There's a straightforward API for this, but Safari fails silently when calling it for certain scenarios (such as trying to remove the "Allow All Websites" permission from within the extension itself).
Kearch sleach don’t have a solution unfortunately but you guys should check out the XSearch Safari web extension. You can set it to use Kagi as default (override Global Safari search engine) and this works 100% of the time there’s also other feature baked in. Just a suggestion until the bugs with the kagi app get sorted.
