neidu3What's an online service you happily pay for?
Kagi.com - excellent search engine. Yes, it shouldn’t be needed, but in this day and age it clearly is. Excellent slop filter, and it let’s you downrank and uprank certain sites in your search results. And I just found out you can see the most popular sites for each category, so it’s fast and easy to see which sites probably are and aren’t worth having in your results at all. It makes internet search feel like it did 20 years ago.
DominusOfMegadeusSame. Love Kagi. Tried going without for a while, and the difference was stark. Re-upped, and all is now right with my search world.
DaveYes, it shouldn’t be needed
My view is that is should be needed. Advertising is a bad business model, I’d much prefer paying for a service I used. I think we should all get more comfortable paying for the sites we use.
tomiantYeah and when you’re using 200 different services and apps and pay for each and every one of them suddenly you have -$2K in your bank account each month, it’s not sustainable
Agreed, and having heard of them for the first time today, their payment plan seems incredibly reasonable, crediting us for unused monthly plan credits means it’s basically pay as you go with a limit to avoid surprise bills, while avoiding the feeling of overpaying because I’m not using a service enough
They only credit for months you do no searches at all, if you do one you pay for the full month, but it’s a nice touch. Personally I can’t think of a situation where I’d do no searches in a month!
For something as important as search, paying $5 or $10 a month seems entirely reasonable to me. I’ve been a Kagi user ever since their unlimited plan dropped to $10 a month when they reached enough users that they could do that.
I see, I misread their site. Still, that seems very fair
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I’d be careful with Kagi: unfortunately, collecting your payment information and attaching it to an account is directly at odds with maintaining privacy on the internet. I used Kagi for a year and did enjoy the search, but ultimately didn’t renew due to privacy concerns.
They do have privacy pass, which claims to alleviate some of the privacy concerns, but then you lose all the customization functionality (my main use for Kagi) and there appear to be some issues with it (see this thread piefed.social/post/1204472).