• @[email protected]
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    02 years ago

    Pay for search? There should be another approach… at this rate will be paying for every single thing we do on internet and navigating properly would require a bunch of money .

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        02 years ago

        I understand and I agree. I tried it already and kagi is great. But I’m concerned about the amount of services we will need to pay in order to stay out of the eyes . I’m not sure if it’s the way.

        • Chetzemoka
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          12 years ago

          We have to pay for the services we use somehow. I’d rather it be cash than the details of my entire life. But the money to operate those services has to come from somewhere

      • Helix 🧬
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        02 years ago

        Paying a monthly service fee to not have the company sell your data under the guise of “free” sounds quite reasonable.

        How do you know they don’t make you pay and still sell your data to get even more profit? Because no company who said they’re not evil was ever evil?

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            2 years ago

            This is unnecessarily defeatist.

            Why defeatist? I didn’t say it doesn’t matter. I think that many, if not most, corporations are evil and you shouldn’t trust a single word they say unless you are able to independently verify it.

            how do you know there isn’t a Lemmy instance running right now that’s collecting data with the intent to sell?

            I don’t, but I also don’t put a lot of sellable information on Lemmy, I rather link to my own sites, where some of them have a CC-BY-SA license. I know that everything I put on the internet is basically free game for evil capitalists.

    • hh93
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      02 years ago

      It’s either this or ads or selling your data

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        02 years ago

        Oh, there’s a third way. Like DuckDuckGo & Qwant for example. Just have sponsored ads unrelated to you, or ads related to the specific search only (Without detailing your actual search terms to the one buying the ads) and selected companies in such “store” articles results.

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          12 years ago

          User choice in the form of multiple tiers would be ideal. I might or might not pay to remove non-creepy ads depending on how they’re presented.