What specifically do you think is hard to avoid? I’ve never accidentally triggered a quick answer, personally

Paying for Yandex APIs is a product of their goal to be the best search engine available. They pay for access to nearly every major search provider and wouldn’t want to lose access to Yandex results just because of the country they’re located in.

Personally, it’s the only search engine I haven’t wanted to get away from

I just hope there will eventually be a solution that doesn’t require tired server owners to sift through registrations and posts all day.

I think the majority of people on Lemmy don’t want to be served an AI-generated feed about AI. Maybe try a more AI- or LLM-focused community?

If you want F-droid’s moderation, you can still ensure the code is original to the developers by verifiying signatures with something like AppVerifier.

What confuses me is what they mean by “corporate VPN data containing unencrypted login details.” Unless the VPN server connects to the backend servers with unencrypted traffic through these satellites (which definitely should not happen) then this should not be possible.

That would probably be more effective as a form of protest against such technologies.

You sould be able to get to it under settings > advanced > “Open Redirects”

To create a redirect:

1. Go to https://kagi.com/settings/redirects
2. Click “Add Rule”
3. In the bottom box, use the following format to create your redirect:

^https://original.domain.tld/|https://new.domain.tld/

For example, to replace www.youtube.com with inv.nadeko.net (an Invidious instance), you can use the rule

^https://www.youtube.com/|https://inv.nadeko.net/

I’ve also created a copy of this rule for any youtu.be results, as well as X/Twitter and Reddit for their respective frontends. This will work for any pair of websites if you can simply replace the domain in the URL and have it pull up the correct content on the alternative website.

It comes down to the fact that Kagi’s first priority in search is providing the best results, so they’re not going to turn down access to another search api based on politics.

That is also something you can do with Kagi. 😆 I have it set up so that all YouTube results redirect me to Invidious, as well as Reddit and Twitter for their respective frontends.

With some manual configuration, that’s something you can do with Kagi!

Yes. I’ve noticed this is a lot more common for Mullvad than for ProtonVPN servers.

What exactly is your concern? It’s a decentralized service, so it’s not as if any of your data has to be controlled by them to use it

I would definitely encourage you to edit the link for this post to include the correct one!

And then you use a centralized service by Google to redirect the link rather than just using the link itself. 🙁

Here’s the actual link: https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/we-need-to-go-beyond-signal-how-todays-aws-outage-shows-the-weaknesses-of-centralized-apps

Except current methods can never lead to a “superintelligence.”

Sadly University of Florida has also started becoming a sort of “AI first” university 😣

I use it, although not with people who are new to encrypted messaging or who I really need to keep contact with.

SimpleX has great features for the separation of pseudonyms, which is part of why I think it’s the best concept for an encrypted messaging app so far. But it’s not only for-profit, but funded by venture capital. I don’t think it’s going to last for the long term, and if it does, it’ll probably experience a similar enshitification that other services have. Supposedly they’re going to profit by allowing businesses to pay for their service, but I doubt that they’ll actually make much money from that.