Again, this. As I've been saying for months, Kagi is another face of the problem, pretending to be a solution. At least the others don't take your money to do the exact same shit.
I would pay for a privacy-respecting, non-crypto, non-AI, search engine. One literally doesn't exist.
I fucking TOLD you. What'd I fucking tell you? THIS! I told you exactly FUCKING THIS.
When the predominant values and attitudes of Search as a Culture are all-in on consentless, wasteful, bullshit-proliferating "AI" garbage then "Just Don't Use Google" is NOT A MEANINGFUL SOLUTION.