Boomkop3 Thanks for your feedback on this!
Just to clarify, we don't do ads or even paid promotions. This is a two-way partnership to support products that are user-funded, ad-free and privacy-first, and who share our values. It's totally up to users whether or not they'd like to take advantage of these offers or not. These recommendations appear in a specific section for users who seek them out, not pushed throughout the user experience. It's deliberately very avoidable for users who do not want to see such specials.
The companies featured here do the same for us as well: https://ente.io/friends/
For Kagi to grow and to improve our outreach efforts, we need to get more creative, and this is something we've been experimenting with. It has the larger purpose of building a network of privacy-first, user-funded services that can support each other's growth without compromising on our core values.
