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Many people would prefer a paid service over an ad supported one.
Many people would prefer that their search history isn't associated to personal and payment information.
I generally agree with that, but as an aggregation service it would need to justify not providing any actual content/information with its price structure. The same argument against AI models trained with user data.
It still costs money for hardware and hosting. Scraping web and training AI ain't cheap.