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Premium Privacy Services: are they really that private ?
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this post was submitted on 24 Apr 2026
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Anything you pay for will only be as anonymous as the payment method you use, things like bitcoin are not really anonymous since buying bitcoin without know your customer regulations is hard. If your adversary has the resources or your threat model is high enough even paying by mailing cash proposes a risk which is why things like tor need to be free. My advice is get a password manager and create unique long passwords and never reuse usernames to prevent doxxing threats, I use keepassXc for everything even my bank.
While this is certainly true, I'd like to highlight the difference between privacy and anonymity. Kagi is worse because they require payment information (though there is an option which attempts to separate your payment from your searches), but they are better because their privacy policy is better. If you don't trust the service itself, whether because of its location or any other reason, then you need to be paying in cash or monero, using free services. In both of those cases though, you also need to ensure you don't deanonymize yourself in other ways. In other words, pay if you don't want to think about too much, and you more or less trust the company.