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Why pay $10 a month to get away from

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has gone from being the go-to search engine to something people are paying to avoid entirely. This week, Cherlynn and Devindra chat with

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co-founder

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, a $10 a month search engine without ads or data tracking. Funny enough, Kagi is still relying on

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’s index, so it’s a lot like using that site before the onslaught of ads, sponsored posts and AI results. Also, we discuss the company’s ***** around Chrome’s incognito mode, as well as the news that it would be deleting user data collected in that mode. (Be sure to

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Topics

• Why Jason Koebler moved from

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  to Kagi’s paid search engine – 0:45

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  says it will ******** data collected from users using Incognito mode – 15:01

• Gurman report: Apple is working on personal home robots – 24:55

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  just walked out on its self check-out tech – 30:43

• FCC set to vote to restore Net Neutrality – 43:00

• Apple adds Spatial Personas to make the Vision Pro experience less lonely – 45:09

• Proposed California state law would give tech workers the “right to disconnect” – 47:17

• Tekken director responds to fighting game fans’ request for a Waffle House stage – 49:57

• Around Engadget – 51:22

• Working on – 54:31

• Pop culture picks – 59:13

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Credits

Hosts: Cherlynn Low and Devindra Hardawar
Guest:

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Producer: Ben Ellman
Music: Dale North and Terrence O’Brien

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