Do they? I remember seeing this in the past but can’t find the information anymore. Now they only say “all major search providers” and that was part of the criticism in this “reveal”. That they have become more opaque rather than being transparent about it.

This is all the official info I could find. Please share if anyone can find anything more. https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.html

Maybe not exacly what you’re looking for but www.chosic.com has a bunch of tools for recommending similar artists and songs.

How does clicking on ads protest against them? Doesn’t that just give even more money to the ad networks (and Google)?

Symfonium is a great Android client that works with Jellyfin and it lets you choose if you want transcoded or original audio from the server.