> I'd gladly pay a subscription to a good search engine to remove the need for ads and align the business model to the privacy goals, however I'm probably in a

> I'd gladly pay a subscription to a good search engine to remove the need for ads and align the business model to the privacy goals, however I'm probably in a small minority here. I think you're correct about it being a small minority, but I'm definitely there with you. Even with their affiliate and advertising model (someone else linked it), I'd rather pay money to just have the site ignore all ad determination, affiliate linking, etc if it sees me logged in and my account paid up. Of course, most people seem to be heavily trained to look for "free" and chastise anything subscription based, no matter how cheap/fair.