Yes, you can. You can block any domain you want to appear in your search results. Here's the documentation for this feature.

Kagi is awesome! I recently fell in love with it.

Why would they want to stop? This is their fight against adblockers and on Chromium based browsers it's an effective way so of course they keep pushing. ;)

As long as it works fine for you I'm glad. :)
If you're interested here are my three bad experiences with AGH:

• The "use AdGuard browsing security web service" option made all DNS queries so slow after a week to the point where nothing was resolved anymore. (That was 2 years ago, maybe fixed now)
• They removed some library with an update which caused a panic when booting AGH so it wouldn't start anymore. That library was needed to use the DoH encryption of one of my upstream DNS servers. I had to remove that one from my config.
• The next update didn't fix this issue but added another one: A few hours of running this version ( I don't remember the version number) the AGH service suddenly crashed. I started it again but 5 minutes later it would crash again. That was the point where I stopped using AGH because it didn't feel reliable anymore and updates only made it worse.

Right. Discord, Revolt, Guilded etc. are heavily inspired by IRC but they modernized it by adding more features. Right now they are so much more than IRC.

Yeah, it's a bit annoying. A megathread about the the best privacy focused search engine would be a thing too. :D

Just change the email address for all your accounts where it's possible to change it. In your GMail settings forward all incoming emails to your new email adress.

Depending on where you live you might just let your ISP give you a modem and you can choose the router yourself. ISPs use the TR-069 protocol which allows them to manage and administrate the router they gave you. This is probably what they did when they made the changes you mentioned. It even allows them to analyze your whole home network. Thanks to this they can spy on you if they want to. So my advice is to just get a modem from them and choose your own router because then they can't spy on you. My advice is to use OPNsense, it's open source.

Edit: Bridge mode + your own router so they can't spy on your home network would also do the trick.

The only things I can imagine here are because they had a data breach where the attackers could see the traffic of users and aggressive advertising, which is tbh just annoying. That of course doesn't mean they're bad in terms of their user's privacy.
Mullvad has been visited by the police but Mullvad couldn't deliver them what they wanted because they don't keep data of their users. This is proof that they truly don't keep logs. This incident alone makes me personally prefer Mullvad over NordVPN.

There are many reasons. One of the reasons is this sneaky one.

Then there's more than enough telemetry Mozilla makes use of in Firefox you need to disable in about:config where most users don't even look. Lookup the following options:

• browser.tabs.crashReporting.sendReport
• datareporting.policy.dataSubmissionEnabled
• datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnabled
• toolkit.coverage.endpoint.base
• toolkit.coverage.opt-out
• toolkit.telemetry.coverage.opt-out

Everytime you start Firefox it sends your location to Mozilla. Lookup these options:

• Region.current
• Region.home
• browser.region.update.enabled
• browser.region.network.url

These are just a few things Mozilla does and pretty much nobody talks about because they are considered trustworthy. But let's be real here: Trust is good, control is better. That's why I made some research about Mozilla and found out about the above things.

What kind of device are we talking about? Do you use the client software of your VPN provider? What's your VPN provider?

Let's assume you use a desktop PC with the client software of your VPN provider:
Make your OS use the DNS servers of NextDNS. This will make your PC always use NextDNS. Now when you activate your VPN connection with the client software it overrules your OS's DNS settings (as long as you're connected to the VPN server) and tunnels all DNS traffic through your VPN tunnel to avoid a DNS leak.

I wouldn't trust Startpage anymore since they were bought by an advertisement company. Better use Whoogle fo get results from Google.