Agree with OP and @kagifeedbackisolated723. Privacy pass is the feature that convinced me to pay for a Kagi subscription, but the inability to disable safe-search filtering while using it is such an enormous flaw. I'd like to echo a sentiment expressed here and in other safe-search related issues: data stewardship and privacy are, in my mind, the primary motivators to use Kagi's services; there are very few topics that are more privacy-sensitive than those currently filtered from "safe" search results at the moment.
Ideally it would be possible to achieve both, but I think this may represent a fundamental fork in the road for Kagi. If the choice is between:
- An unbiased and privacy-preserving search engine that returns results 100% responsive to user queries, or
- A potentially privacy-endangering search engine (requires account with payment) unless used for strictly "family-friendly" queries (with the privacy pass extension),
I strongly support (1) over (2). I'm not sure what user demographic(s) Kagi wants to cater to, but I suspect at least a large plurality of those interested in Kagi's value proposition would feel similarly.
What advantages does Kagi have over Google if not search integrity and privacy?
Why should users seeking privacy guarantees be punished with a search engine experience degraded by censorship? (...and a type of censorship that caters specifically to rather a prudish and US-centric set of social norms, at that)
