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> so much so that switching to them is both painful at first and frustrating on a daily basis Speaking as someone who made a switch about 2 years ago, I could
by dangom 8y ago
> so much so that switching to them is both painful at first and frustrating on a daily basis
Speaking as someone who made a switch about 2 years ago, I could not agree more.
For desktop purposes it's OK because I don't mind refining my search query, but for mobile it's a serious pain.
As an example, sometimes you just want to look up something quickly, like restaurant reviews, or an article you were talking about to a friend. Trying to "re-find" things you've searched or seen before, or trying to find specific places in your neighbourhood, that is where the need for privacy takes its largest toll on convenience.
Why isn't there a way to combine privacy with keeping your data?
- alleyshack 8y ago> Why isn't there a way to combine privacy with keeping your data? Because we haven't figured out how to monetize it yet. Or perhaps more accurately, we haven't convinced the average consumer that it's worth paying for. In theory, we could build services which do combine privacy with convenience, but consumers would have to be willing to pay for those services - and pay enough to make them viable. But too many people are too accustomed to "free" services, paid for with their data/loss of privacy (an intangible loss which many people either don't care about or believe it's too late to recover), to like the idea of handing over cold hard cash instead (a tangible loss which could directly impact the ability of people on limited budgets to access these services).