Actually they are not angry that we have to use their shit, remember we are part of the product, along with all the other sheeple, for whom they have equal contempt.
They just want us to do so passively, silently, be good consumers, watch or listen to the adverts, and not let our opposing voices be heard.

no such thing for a privacy-washing slopcorpo

That's at the doge-man Musk level of fascist bootlicking.

It's this cancerous idea that political choices are sacrosanct, no matter what : that in a "democracy" (in name only) people must never be faulted for their political leanings, no matter how vile the actions their "political" overlords plan or perpetrate.

It's a falsehood. A liberalist foible of the highest order, like that fake Voltaire quote by Evelyn Beatrice Hall.

^^^ This thread is how you do it if you actually want to influence people.

Every other post I have read so far in this collective tirade against Kagi has been the opposite of convincing. Condescending, presumotious, rude, crude and mute worthy. I've been muting people a LOT today. Because the anti Kagi posts have felt like a personal attack against me. I'm just a user who wanted search that actually works.

This thread OTOH, has me seriously reexamining my Kagi subscription. I've learned an awful lot of very dishearteneing things about Kagi just this very day.

And that sucks because Kagi search actually works. Literally every other search option sucks ass.

The motivation is key, the same act can be expected to go very different ways in the long run depending on whether the motivation is due to lack of a better option or due to just not caring.

very well put.