This comment gets posted every time Kagi is mentioned on this forum and nobody ever posts any context so here you go: https://kagifeedback.org/d/5445-reconsider-yandex-integratio...

I believe very strongly that Russia started a completely unjustified war of agression against Ukraine, and that our moral, political, monetary, and military aid (through the sale of weapons, not direct involvement) should be firmly on the side of the Ukrainians.

But I do not see in the slightest how boycotting Kagi, or any other company who technically does business with some entity in Russia, helps the Ukrainians. Avoiding money to their businesses directly involved in the war efforts (arms, etc)? Sure, I get that. But yandex is only involved in the sense that the entire Russian economy is in some technical sense involved. I don't believe in punishing random Russians or Russian companies for the actions of their authoritarian, despotic government.

And to whatever extent it would have a miniscule impact, I believe that the impact it has on pushing tech companies more broadly towards user-first and user-aligned behavior far outweighs that. That isn't to say that that goal is more important than Ukrainians winning the war, it's not, or even very close, but the magnitude of difference more than balances the importance of the cause. Furthermore, the way we as westerners can actually make a difference is telling our politicians that we stand with Ukraine. A single phone call or letter to your representative would MASSIVELY outweigh a subscription to Kagi. }

So have you messaged your representative? If not, then I find this performative, and in either case, I am highly skeptical that it makes any practical difference.

As always, I'm open to having my mind changed.

I don't know much about Russia and it's economics. Does giving money to Yandex really fund the war? If so, how much? I'm assuming they are a private company that pays some taxes to the Russian government and some of that tax money goes towards the war, but like I said, I really don't know

Why is HN gets political like Reddit these days?

Can you shed more light on this?

Are you in Europe? If so, you've probably already given loads of money to Russia via natural gas from the Nordstream pipelines.

You slave to digital, influential colonialism of US, every social media, platform, algo feed you consume is owned and shaped by US. Poland is digital colony. Good luck.

Elaborate?

Thanks for the reminder. I have to admit, I had forgotten that they were doing this. I've cancelled my sub.