I thought Yandex was blacklisted by a lot of countries?

The world doesn’t need another politicized search engine.

he says while funding a war

Yea, it's a sucky situation. At least they're not actively investing into Yandex, it's just a source (like Google) for the search results. Though since it's a paid service, the most likely way to make em stop is to express your displeasure and vote with your wallet, and if enough people do that then it'll cost less to stop using Yandex than it does to ignore unhappy (potential) customers

I'm a long time Kagi subscriber, this is not just to criticize, I would like to have other people's opinions.

Financing Yandex never sat right with me.
Now with the recent attacks on Yandex servers and the perceived decrease in activity of far right accounts I'm even more wary about paying for Kagi. I'm otherwise very happy with the service provided, and it will be difficult not to rely on it anymore.

I'm still waiting for a clearer picture. It might be misinformation.

There are however reports that MAGA, Afd, Reform UK and Musk posts media presence and public engagement has dropped.

Eyebrows Raise When Elon Musk’s Twitter Engagement Shrivels After Destruction of Russian Data Centers

EXCLUSIVE: Reform figures see social media engagement drop after strikes on Russia data centres

MAGA supporters vanish from White House X posts after Ukraine strikes on data centers take out Russian bots

Ukraine Struck Yandex Data Centers, Russian Bots Went Silent—Now Questions Are Mounting

« C’est révélateur » : Kiev détruit des data centers russes, l’activité de bots pro-Trump et pro-AfD s’effondre sur les réseaux sociaux

Customer for over a year now and I don’t love this, but I feel like Kagi sits at the intersection of private enough and high performing enough. I tried a lot of the other suggestions for engines before switching and Kagi gave the best results from my testing.

Just cancelled my subscription and then deployed a Degoog container. Let's see how it goes...