Happy Kagi user here

Downsides include environmental impact, and the usage might skew the company’s involved to belief it’s more useful than it really is

Yeah, they’re shady, no doubt, I won’t really try them again. I’ll keep using Firefox and Librewolf and I use Kagi for search and like their AI summaries. I do like tools for accessing gated news when I need it, though, which was what piqued my interest.

Thank you for the summary. Ironically, this makes me want to try Brave again, ha.

I think he has degraded in his standing badly in recent years, cashing in and blocking progress.