I have been using Kagi for the last few months and it's the first alternative search engine (tried the Brave's one and DDG) that does not make me go back to goo

I have been using Kagi for the last few months and it's the first alternative search engine (tried the Brave's one and DDG) that does not make me go back to google every other search. On the flips side, though, getting a "you cannot search anymore until you've paid" message was quite a shock to me. Like - I paid for it to try it out. It worked well, so it wasn't really a "nobody told me there would be a subscription" kind of shock, but more like on that second month I got the "wait, am I actually paying for the access to a search engine?" realization. Makes you notice how much we are getting conditioned to the "out business for your data" business model.