@scalzi I'm more bothered by Hulu's price hike. Even with ad-free, prime overall is still about $15/mo, which gets you the free shipping, too, while Hulu is bumping up to ~$20 for ad-free next month.

Hulu is the only service I really feel compelled to cycle my subscription periodically - sub, binge for a couple / few months, then cancel for half a year or so. All their bundles seem like a bad deal, too, or are only available with ads. Disney seemingly really, really would prefer you just accept ads on Hulu and ESPN.

Fingers crossed they lose exclusivity on the tiny few shows I care about and I can just stop using them altogether.

Maaaaan, what a disappointing thread to stumble across not an hour after I was just thinking, "Geeze I've been on Kagi for half a year and I don't miss google a bit! Totally worth the price!"

I'm conflicted; search being good is really important for me both personally and professionally, but...yeah that's a disappointing response. Heck, they could've probably come up with a technical solution like an opt-out or something that would've at least...mitigated, but they just doubled down.

I wish somebody would see this as a chance to swoop in and duplicate Kagi's business model / basic concept but with a bit of "don't be evil" principle mixed in. At least maybe they'd be good for 5-10 years before they turned to the dark side. :P

@colinstu My work and an outside company were hoping to have a contract finalized before Thanksgiving, but the outside company didn't get their revision in until Tuesday.

Shortly after, basically everybody who had to sign off had set their status to Out Of Office + Away while still talking about it in PMs and private / internal-only channels, lol. Next week!