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Precisely. Ad and user data supported products will always balance making their users happy, with making their paying customers happy.

If you’re looking for a new search engine, I’ve been using paid search provider, Kagi.com, for the last few months. They’ve been great.

This is sweet. Now I can upgrade my old Mac! How have I never heard of this before?

I didn’t think that book lived up to the hype. But maybe I just didn’t get it.

With Cloudflare as the registrar, you can’t change the name server for the root domain. It locks you in to Cloudflare’s NS.

Sure, if there’s a free trial (Kagi has one). Though if it’s from you, probably not 😉

Fair. By similar logic, don’t discredit the whole paid ecosystem, when you’re used to getting something for free. Kagi has no ads, no trackers, and listens to their users. Their search results and feature set is better than DDG.

What, to try things before you dismiss them as dumb?

If you’re not paying for it, you are the product. Don’t knock it til you try it.

If you’re not paying for it, you are not the customer, but the product. You most likely fit into the $5 or $10 plan. Here’s the page you’re looking for: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/why-kagi/why-pay-for-search.html

I’ve switched over to a paid search engine, kagi.com. There are no ads and the results are better than DDG.