@katzenberger @rysiek @MarkAssPandi All search engines make money from advertising. You just expect them to be 100% free to use and ad-free and cover their expenses how?

I don't think its unreasonable for Qwant to ask to show you ads, especially if they are implemented in a privacy-preserving non-tracking way. The alternative would be to pay a subscription for Qwant.

Elsewhere, Mojeek is nice, but they also introduced AI recently.

https://blog.mojeek.com/2024/04/mojeek-search-summary.html

@matt @katzenberger @rysiek It would be nice to have paid service like Kagi but without AI and their take on brave ngl

@matt @MarkAssPandi @rysiek @katzenberger @svenja One thing I'm missing is a search engine that offers subscription.

I don't like subscriptions that much but for a search engine I think it's the most viable model if we want to avoid Ads and tracking. Someone has to pay to keep the lights on.

@xgebi I'm very happy paying for Kagi. With DDG I found myself reverting to Google often; with Kagi I don’t.

(I disable the "AI" by default but sometimes use it explicitly.)