It's a paid service, so you need to authenticate to use it.

You're a paying customer, not the product.

Mullvad is able to do this without passwords and emails AND it is a paid product that is privacy based.

I don't see why Kagi can't do the same.

And it has huge problems with reselling accounts, attacks to randomly guess the username which gives full access to the account, they had to disable port forwarding due to abuse via anonymity, and they enforce a device limit per account due to the above. It does work for them, but at a cost.

Kagi is "a company created with the mission to humanize the web. Our goal is to amplify the web of human knowledge, creativity, and self-expression." Their goal is a search engine above all.

Mullvad's tagline right now is "A free and open society is a society where people have the right to privacy." Their goal is privacy exclusively in a VPN.

> And it has huge problems with reselling accounts, attacks to randomly guess the username which gives full access to the account, they had to disable port forwarding due to abuse via anonymity, and they enforce a device limit per account due to the above. It does work for them, but at a cost.

Paying for a random generated ephemeral account would be even better for Kagi but as far as I see it now, it's a privacy nightmare.

I recommend Kagi to follow the model what Mullvad has done for making a product privacy preserving while still being able to make money.

100% anonymous is possible. I would love my [very, very anonymous] Mullvad account to be matched by kagi. As it is, my options are worse - but free.