I’m privileged by being able to afford Kagi, it’s really night and day. Even just the fact that nobody can buy out a hostile ad to phish me/infect me with malware
I don’t want to encourage pay-to-use websites but then again - if Google’s new search is as bad as it seems - I’ll stop using it. Also - I assume google will kill off a great deal of independent news media and replace it greater and greater amounts of AI slop.
Ultimately, things have to pay for themselves. A model where you outright pay for the service of search seems to be one of the fairest, bar distributed/community-owned search engines.
I’m privileged by being able to afford Kagi, it’s really night and day. Even just the fact that nobody can buy out a hostile ad to phish me/infect me with malware
it says like $5/mo for 300 searches or $10/mo for unlimited. do you have an estimate of how many searches you do?
i can imagine wanting unlimited because a single search usually is actually like five searches as i try to refine, my searches are iterative.
also $10/mo feels excessive. my vpn is less than that and i hammer that thing 24-7 on multiple devices, including a seedbox.
I’ve run out of 300 searches in a few days, so I’m running unlimited now.
Good lord what the hell are you doing on the computer that you need 300 separate searches in a few days?
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Ultimately, things have to pay for themselves. A model where you outright pay for the service of search seems to be one of the fairest, bar distributed/community-owned search engines.
10$ per month is just a lot for me. Have to stick to duckduckgo
That works too
it’s refreshing and very worth it, imo
Just use ublock?
That works too, as long as the correct results are at all there