You are confusing morality and copyright with user privacy.

You also failed to access if you’ve actually tried the search engine that you are no quick to spit nonsense about.

Privacy company offers privacy focused LLMs for users that would’ve otherwise paid for ChatGPT. Unbelievable

Did you actually ever try Kagi or do you just want to spit uninformed delusions?

Doesn’t help they pick the oldest guys in the room to become the pope.

It’s the Cypherpunk’s Manifesto all over again.

TCP over IP as a protocol is an “open standard”. Network implementations are nearly always strictly proprietary.

The “protocols” behind browsers are public. HTML, CSS, and ECMAScript are all well defined on sites like the Mozilla documentation. You are free to implement your own browser that follows these standards.