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Not the previous poster, but I'm a paid subscriber of Kagi and was previously a heavy user of DDG. The key difference that the previous poster outlined and you
by rippercushions 3y ago
Not the previous poster, but I'm a paid subscriber of Kagi and was previously a heavy user of DDG.
The key difference that the previous poster outlined and you're missing is that with Kagi, you're the customer, while with DDG, you're the product. Kagi is thus incentivized to improve their offering to better fit your needs as a user, while DDG is incentivized to better serve their customers the advertisers.
- fsckboy 3y agoneither the previous poster, but I'm not missing what was said, but are you missing that paying a subscription for something, if it becomes popular, becomes an irresistible audience to also advertise to? Have you seen Amazon Prime video lately? it becomes more and more festooned with ads, like happened to cable TV. Pay a subscription, and watch ads, or promotions, or product placements. They're drunk on it.
- rippercushions 3y agoKagi doesn't have any ads, and serves an audience that is so opposed to ads that they'll pay for the privilege. Sure, in 10 or 20 years that may change, but for now I don't seem them changing that and taking away their single biggest differentiator.
- Super_Jambo 3y agoIf Kagi adds ads I'll leave it.
- red-iron-pine 3y agoThere is a level of ad I'm willing to tolerate. 20 seconds before a YT vid -- yeah maybe. Every 2 minutes during the vid? Not so happy. ditto for a paid search. something on the side of the page, or something that's in the middle of results but still clearly an ad... maybe.
- fsckboy 3y agoif Kagi becomes popular, losing the early subscribers is just a drop from their bucket