Perhaps, I don't question their motives but as a user, I care very deeply exactly who and where gets to process all my searches for example. Now that they have a browser too - accessing literally everything about my life...
It's 2025, we don't have to wait to know they will get enschittified as natural part of their growth process.
The founder's name sounds serbian so this might be the reason. The fact that the serbian government is fucked up, doesn't mean that good things cannot happen there.
> Above all, it’s a place where our founder and CEO, Vlad, lived and built for over 30 years before moving to the USA. It’s a place where we already have a few Kagi employees