Support ranking search results by amount of tracking detected

weidenwiesel

Kagi already does a great job at giving it's users more control over a user-centered personalized search experience.
What I would love to see added to the ranking system is an option to automatically lower the rank of all websites (or even block them entirely) that use excessive amount of tracking.
This should of course be fine-tunable by the user.
The information apparently is already there, Kagi informs about site trackers when clicking on the badge on a search result.

Implementation:
In the kagi settings under "website info & personalized results" there would be a new option where a user could enable and control that all search results with excessive amounts of tracking (the degree should be controllable by the user too) would get ranked down or even blocked on the search results.

kirkmc

I discovered yesterday that Kagi claims that my personal website has seven trackers. If I look at the site in Safari or Edge, each says only one. I think they are counting Amazon js code that sends Amazon affiliate links to the country where the user is located. I think they are not counting two WordPress stats trackers.

So Kagi makes my site look worse than it really is. If it gets downranked, then that's just unfair - it wouldn't for just seven trackers, but the point is that Kagi seems to have gotten it wrong, and could get this number wrong on other sites.

Ronzino

kirkmc Even if you use them for affiliate programs or stats, they are definitely tracking users.

RoxyRoxyRoxy

kirkmc Would you mind creating a separate post about this tracker issue you're seeing on our site? That helps to keep things organized for the team a bit better. I'll send @weidenwiesel's suggestion to the team for review!

kirkmc

Yes, but I said there's only one affiliate, and apparently only two for WP stats. Not seven like Kagi says.