https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=473221
--- Comment #4 from Wyatt Childers <kdebugs.81do7@haxing.ninja> --- (In reply to Alexander Lohnau from comment #3) > All the other search engines are freely available. IMHO we should not add a > paid to the ones we ship by default. > > This again raises the question if we should have a sharing feature for > engines. Then the few people who have a paid account there can easily add it > to KRunner/other KDE components making use of webshortcuts. I realize KDE's user base is (in the scope of things) very small and is unlikely to have a much of an impact, but an unwillingness to add a search provider (that IMO is in many ways is more closely aligned with free software ethos than say, Google) feels very much like picking winners. https://kde.org/for/activists/ - "We actually care about data privacy and digital well-being, and we fight for them." https://help.kagi.com/kagi/getting-started/faqs.html#what-is-kagi - "Kagi is currently Kagi Search, a fast, private search engine", "Kagi is a company created with the mission to humanize the web. Our goal is amplify the web of human knowledge, creativity and self-expression and provide the user tools to fight against the web of greed, ad-tech and user tracking." I really don't think this needs to be controversial. If people don't want to use it, they won't. It's easier on folks that do (or may want to use it but haven't heard of it) if it's "just there" though. IMO FOSS ethics are not anti-paid software, there's no conflict on interest here, particularly when *no* search provider shipped in KDE's defaults is actually a FOSS option. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
