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How come you feel the need to pay for your search engine? What type of searches do you do?
If a service is provided "free" you're paying for it in another way. Usually ads, but with data collection and aggregation becoming so pervasive, you're now paying with you're privacy. Kagi, is just more honest of a transaction.
I don't do anything particularly interesting, it's just while I'm working I don't want to get slowed down scrolling through sponsored listings and crap to get to what I need. Plus, I'd rather just pay for something than "be the product" with my data. I don't do anything weird but more privacy is better.
For me it comes down to 3 things:
I like the idea, that if kagi makes decisions that are unpopular with the majority of users, they will lose income as a direct consequence of that. So their business decisisons are driven by their users interests and needs, not by what advertisers want (in googles example)
I like the basic idea of what the kagi team wants to achieve and I want to see the end result of that. But in order to be able to compete in a market dominated by tech giants like google and Microsoft I'm willing to contribute financially.
I like my web browsing experience ad free. I know (and use) ad blockers, but I also recognise that, for any service, money has to come from somewhere. And if that service provides me with actual benefits, and I'm happy with it overall, I'm fine with paying a fee instead of seeing ads.
Less Google = better. The results are also better, and looking for stuff is a good part of my programming job.
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