Huh? How exactly do you package privacy? It’s something you can lose, but not something you can buy.
Kagi is selling search, same as Google. The difference is that you can only pay in dollars, not data.
I agree it’s overpriced, but this is where we are. The actual market for genuine web services is atrophied after 30 years of neckbeards naively insisting that web services should be free. Search should cost $5/year by now. But oh well, 30 years too late is better than never.
30 years of neckbeards naively insisting that web services should be free.
Why. You were off to a great start.
I’m one of those neckbeards and web services should be free, as in a social service. So should potable drinking water.
Paying for a social service with money voluntarily or with your own data is not a really a choice between providers, it’s an admission that we should, in fact, all remain essentially cattle.
I too was one of those neckbeards, so I use the term with love. :)
I certainly think we should voluntarily create some crowd-funded free-to-use services like the fediverse. But we can’t pretend that commerce doesn’t exist.
People are going to try to make money by hosting stuff online and enticing people to go there and use it. I would prefer if those people made money by charging admission instead of by collecting and selling data.
I am talking about privacy, i was not talking about search engine (indexing websites text and pulling results).
You are missing the point completely here, privacy should not be a debatable subject, laws should been in place to fully protect humans from data markets, governments should never allowed this situation (where google sells your information) to exist.
I agree with your policy position. The three options should be:
Crowd-funded, free to use, privacy preserving
Paid, privacy preserving
Self-hosted
A fourth “free to use, subsidized through data collection” option shouldn’t even be legal.
But we’re not there yet. And in order to get there, we need companies like Kagi to populate the second category so that when politicians say “but how will they make money if they can’t sell data?” we have examples to point to.
Huh? How exactly do you package privacy? It’s something you can lose, but not something you can buy.
Kagi is selling search, same as Google. The difference is that you can only pay in dollars, not data.
I agree it’s overpriced, but this is where we are. The actual market for genuine web services is atrophied after 30 years of neckbeards naively insisting that web services should be free. Search should cost $5/year by now. But oh well, 30 years too late is better than never.
Why. You were off to a great start.
I’m one of those neckbeards and web services should be free, as in a social service. So should potable drinking water.
Paying for a social service with money voluntarily or with your own data is not a really a choice between providers, it’s an admission that we should, in fact, all remain essentially cattle.
Hang on, if a social service doesn’t get paid for how does it exist?
I too was one of those neckbeards, so I use the term with love. :)
I certainly think we should voluntarily create some crowd-funded free-to-use services like the fediverse. But we can’t pretend that commerce doesn’t exist.
People are going to try to make money by hosting stuff online and enticing people to go there and use it. I would prefer if those people made money by charging admission instead of by collecting and selling data.
I am talking about privacy, i was not talking about search engine (indexing websites text and pulling results).
You are missing the point completely here, privacy should not be a debatable subject, laws should been in place to fully protect humans from data markets, governments should never allowed this situation (where google sells your information) to exist.
I agree with your policy position. The three options should be:
A fourth “free to use, subsidized through data collection” option shouldn’t even be legal.
But we’re not there yet. And in order to get there, we need companies like Kagi to populate the second category so that when politicians say “but how will they make money if they can’t sell data?” we have examples to point to.
quit it w that tankie shit! lol
(in case it’s not clear: i’m agreeing with you)