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[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

Feels like this is an add, but in case it's not, I use crypto to pay the lowest rate plan and this keeps me anonymous. I really like it but would strongly advise against giving a search provider your personal info which you have to do if paying by credit card. Its a much different thing having your searches linked to an IP vs your cc, name and home address.

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[–] classic@fedia.io 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

Do you then need to buy the crypto anonymously? I'm always confused about that point

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[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

You can but I don't. You pay the crypto to Kagi through a third party pay service. Its not 100% untraceable but it's enough to keep you out of any automated tracking that Kagi is or will eventually be doing.

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[–] nforminvasion@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

You can buy it anonymously, mostly through P2P exchanges and markets. But simply buying bitcoin or some other popular coin with fiat, then exchanging that to Monero and using that to buy your privacy things will work as well.

Monero is very private and anonymous.

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[–] classic@fedia.io 1 point 1 year ago

Thanks! My barrier to using crypto has been this first purchase element. Because afaik crypto is not inherently pvt and anon?

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