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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Many people would prefer a paid service over an ad supported one.

[–] ikidd 7 points 6 months ago

Many people would prefer that their search history isn't associated to personal and payment information.

[–] meliaesc 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

It still costs money for hardware and hosting. Scraping web and training AI ain't cheap.