TechTakes

note: tech sociopath apologists in this thread will be removed and banned for everyone's best interests

I swear I knew these fuckers were dodgy when I saw how UX designed their website was. A better search engine would sell itself even if it looked like craigslist.

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vlad should’ve stopped at the first time lori told him to stop, definitely, but this whole thing just turned into something else.

and, what surprises me the most, is this attitude of “either you are completely defending lori or else you are a transphobe, queer hater, dehumanizing piece of shit”. my opinion goes, not to defend the actual piece of shit ceo, but to defend our opinions against anyone, and lori failed to do so. lori’s attitude comes closer to throwing a stone and hiding the hand, even though i agree with lori’s point.

by no means the poster is forced to debate, i recognize that. and if lori did not want to, perfectly fine. respectable. but the action (and public posts) are still subject to criticism; like mine, that goes against the fact that saying something controversial and then proceeding to be shocked like “omg, how odd, is people being critical of what i said? outrageous!” is funny.

and the mod banning and removing what he feels are apologist crap is the cherry on top. authoritarian vibes all around.

A programmer's search engine it is not, that's for sure from my experience.

Maybe I'm the crazy one but I read the full email thread and his responses didn't seem deranged or unhinged as the author claims. Weird a tech CEO gets into it like over email with a blogger but I just see a guy defending his product. (I haven't seen the stuff he's posted on discord though, as another commenter mentioned)

Copy-pasting the alt-text from one of the screenshots because I can't be assed to type it out myself:

Discord convo from 07/15/22, Vlad: people who really need anonymity are very rare. Probably less than a 100 in the entire world. Definitely not typical Kagi users. Unless they are criminals, in which case we don't care they don't have full anonymity (nor we want them as customers)

yikes, double yikes and triple yikes.

I guess he doesn't care to help women find a safe way to have an abortion in 14 out of 50 US states (source), for starters. Nor to help the doubtlessly more-than-100 queer folk in places that outlaw homosexuality.

Or maybe he's such a genius that he knows how to keep them safe without actually keeping them anonymous - and in that case, he should start selling such a technique as its own product /s

It seems like he was rude to email you specifically when you told him not to, but the rest is just standard CEO behaviour.

It seems like he had answers/responses to a lot of what you said so I'm still kind of with him (though guardedly). Mainly due to lack of a better option; I do think paid search is the way forward.

Probably what he should have done is a response blog-post that we could have also discussed publically, and at our own leisure.

Reading your article I get why he would have got defensive (regardless of if he's covering his ass or has genuine counter-arguments).