So #Kagi is now partnering with #Brave, i.e. the company of Brendan Eich, who has been CEO at Mozilla for eleven days before he had to leave due to massive criticism of his homophobic views. Brave's most well-known product is a browser with its own cryptocurrency, co-designed by Eich.
A feedback post asking Kagi to reconsider has been closed by Kagi's founder Vladimir Prelovac because "Considering company x founder political views is not a factor in [their] evaluation".
https://kagifeedback.org/d/2808-reconsider-your-partnership-with-brave
Quite a controversial decision… I love Kagi though, but I don’t understand why they would want to drag Brave into this.
Huh. You didn’t check out the About page that actually linked to the source code? Because if you had, you would have seen the author’s name and the statement of conflict of interest directly above the statement that it was open source…
That website is run by a Brave employee. And it skews its results in favor of any browser that happens to have an ad blocker.
Who is the brave employee that runs it? privacytest is actually a open source test that you can run in your browser and has its own repo.
Can you provide a source for the second sentence? After that, I can answer the first one.
https://github.com/privacytests/privacytests.org
Huh. You didn’t check out the About page that actually linked to the source code? Because if you had, you would have seen the author’s name and the statement of conflict of interest directly above the statement that it was open source…
No I did not, I knew the website because I had used the tool before, not the other way around.
Thanks for letting me know about the conflict of interest, do you have any suggestions of a similar test?