Blocking, lowering, raising, and pinning domains has been one of my favorite Kagi features. Some of my block highlights include pintrest (and all it's other TLDs) and any AI trash articles I find when looking up something programming related. I lower Quora and Medium. I raise good references like docs sites, Wikipedia, ArchWiki, etc.
Not only are the stock results better: I also get more control over what I see and how it's presented. Huge fan.
Man, I love Kagi. Two years ago I would never have thought I'd ever pay for a search engine, but the option to block garbage domains like userbenchmark or sites with purely AI generated content is just too good.
If you go to duckduckgo.com/settings you can generate a URL with all of your saved settings. Loading it will configure all the settings it includes in your browser's local data. Blocked sites are included, I just checked.
It always takes me awhile to remember where this setting is buried in their menu. In case it helps someone else: https://kagi.com/settings/user_ranked . Besides blocking, they have ranking adjustment options on this page as well.
It's great how they constantly add little things to make their product better. This is definitely a useful feature. Giving tools to customize search makes it feel like a product instead of me being the product sold to advertisers.
FWIW, this is not new, though. Only the article about it is, I’ve been using it for a long time to redirect reddit links (as I’m not logged in on my phone)
There is another one: https://libredirect.github.io/
A web extension that redirects YouTube, Instagram, Reddit, TikTok and many other websites to alternative privacy-friendly frontends.
This is a fork of no longer maintained Privacy Redirect.
Alternative frontends are fetched automatically, so it mostly works out of the box.
This is unfortunate, because I would love to use Kagi (in fact I was a subscriber before I learned about the above). For some of us, money flowing to Russia and/or search index data coming from Russia are moral issues.
I also don't like giving money to Russia, but unfortunately Yandex seems like the last big search engine not to censor a lot of results (I know it won't last forever).
But your first sentence is interesting: this should not depend on where someone is from. I think it's rather sad that it actually does depend on it in practice: if bombs are dropped on your head, you take things seriously, if bombs are dropped on your neighbors' heads', somewhat less so, and if you're half a planet away, let's do business!
I make my own choices so that I can sleep better. I know this isn't popular. The usual approach is either whataboutism ("but what about X which is worse?") or doesntmatterism ("the thing you care about doesn't matter in the Large Scale of Things"). If you read the replies in this thread, almost all of them can be classified into one of those two stances. Importantly, each stance leads to doing nothing.
I don't subscribe to either of those ideologies. I don't have all the answers, but I do not believe that doing nothing is the right answer.
I uninstalled Reddit in protest to API changes, whenever I had to click Reddit links from search result, I was disgusted by their website, slow, bloated and ugly. I don't pay for kagi, so my workaround was -libredirect extension and farside.link website for working instances in Iceraven and helium browser.
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^https://(?:www\.)?reddit\.com|https://old.reddit.com
^https://(?:www\.)?imgur\.com|https://rimgo.bcow.xyz
^https://x\.com|https://xcancel.com
^https://bsky\.app|https://witchsky.app
^https://www\.youtube\.com|https://skipcut.com
^https://www\.npmjs\.com|https://npmx.dev
^https://www\.curseforge\.com|https://legacy.curseforge.com
^https://www\.goodreads\.com|https://biblioreads.eu.org
^https://en\.m\.wikipedia\.org|https://en.wikipedia.org
Paste them here: https://kagi.com/settings/redirects
https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2025/11/21/unifying-mobile-an...
Not only are the stock results better: I also get more control over what I see and how it's presented. Huge fan.
Only seeing the
old.reddit.comdomain is also much more pleasant.The search results page no longer feels adversarial.
https://ublacklist.github.io/docs/getting-started
This is unfortunate, because I would love to use Kagi (in fact I was a subscriber before I learned about the above). For some of us, money flowing to Russia and/or search index data coming from Russia are moral issues.
The US is allowing the purchase of Russian oil again.
I agree with you, but whatever Kagi is paying is nothing in comparison with governments (that people voted for) sending Russia money
Also, Yandex image reverse search seems way more unfiltered than Google's counterpart.
But your first sentence is interesting: this should not depend on where someone is from. I think it's rather sad that it actually does depend on it in practice: if bombs are dropped on your head, you take things seriously, if bombs are dropped on your neighbors' heads', somewhat less so, and if you're half a planet away, let's do business!
I make my own choices so that I can sleep better. I know this isn't popular. The usual approach is either whataboutism ("but what about X which is worse?") or doesntmatterism ("the thing you care about doesn't matter in the Large Scale of Things"). If you read the replies in this thread, almost all of them can be classified into one of those two stances. Importantly, each stance leads to doing nothing.
I don't subscribe to either of those ideologies. I don't have all the answers, but I do not believe that doing nothing is the right answer.
Buy Russa is the only bad country in the world.