These numbers exclude Ecosia, Brave, Qwant and all the other search engines that have seen a surge in sign-ups over the last few days.

You are also seeing people take the opportunity to switch browsers. Vivaldi specifically has reported substantial growth recently.

Article talking about DuckDuckGo: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/26/duckduckgo-installs-are-up-30-as-users-reject-being-force-fed-googles-ai-search/

A website to help you start your own journey: https://purchasewithpurpose.io/

Keep it up and spread the word. No better time to make an impact.

  • Jhex@lemmy.world
    10·
    1 month ago

    they have a strong incentive not to enshittify, as that would lose them lots of paying customers.

    Sorry bud but that’s just naive; literally all the big corpos we hate now were beloved when they started. Kagi already dropped their first paid tier from 500 to 300 searches per month. I am not saying that they will necessarily enshittify but I would certainly not assume they won’t just because they are selling something (look at Plex for a very recent case)

    That being said, there is guarantee that they will not turn shitty later. There never is and never will be, with any service you dont host yourself.

    I think you missed a “no” before “guarantee” but I understand the point. There are not guarantees but this one doesn’t even look like a good candidate to stay clean IMO (plus as a Canadian, I would not subscribe to an American company for the time being, I just saw their wiki to find out where they are based)

    Thanks for your reply