Depends on how private you want to be, but you can pay Kagi with Bitcoin[1] and use that to buy privacy pass tokens and access it through Tor.[2] It’s not complete privacy, but it decouples the account from the searches.
replyAnd in addition, they just ask the minimal info to be able to use the service, an email address, and not a full usual registration.
replyYeah they should use privacy pass for the default accounts as well to decouple payment from account.
replyAbsolutely not. I don't feel it's necessary to pay the sacrifices needed for a trustless society.
replyI would much rather be able to have things like personalised searches (which are identifying).
Not sure what you mean by "private payments" but Kagi accepts Bitcoin: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/plans/payment-methods.html
replyMonero ideally combined with something like this but one or the other would also be an improvement:
reply>Brave uses a blind token protocol based on Privacy Pass, which decouples payment identity from service usage. These privacy-preserving subscription credentials allow the browser to verify you have a valid purchase of a premium product (like Origin) without learning anything about you.
Do you imply that you never order anything online?
replyMy search engine is a digital product that's already free and private and good and is different to when you give someone your home address to send a package.
replyDo you use Google instead?
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