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How much does a creator’s worldview influence whether you use their tech or consume their media?

Depending on what we call “worldview”… either 0%, or 100%.

In this particular case:


SearXNG

SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from more than 70 search services. Users are neither tracked nor profiled.

  • OpenSource
  • Free
  • Self-hostable
  • User configurable

Kagi

Kagi Inc. is a company […]

  • Closed
  • For profit
  • Not verifiable, not controllable
  • You pay for the privilege

Google, Bing, etc.

  • Closed
  • For profit
  • Not verifiable, not controllable
  • You don’t pay, you’re the product

How much does their respective owner’s worldview matter to me?

  • Being open and verifiable: 100%
  • Giving full control to the user: 100%
  • Wanting to sell my tracking data: 0%
  • Misrepresenting their intentions: 100%
  • Having an unrelated opinion about politics, religion, human rights, or other: 0%

As for art, my opinion of the art doesn’t change whether I think the artist is a great or a horrible person; doing otherwise would be either dishonest… or imply the art can’t stand on by itself (I call that kind of art “trash”, no matter the author).

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