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The point is that it had no "surveillance capitalism". It failed because no one cares about that enough - proving that people prefer free with data mining/ads o
by aurareturn 3y ago
The point is that it had no "surveillance capitalism". It failed because no one cares about that enough - proving that people prefer free with data mining/ads over subscriptions for many internet products.
- comte7092 3y ago>It failed because no one cares about that enough You say that like there aren’t numerous other competitors in the space: DuckDuckGo, Kagi, Brave, searx, qwant, startpage, etc, etc. These services provide both paid and ad based models. Neeva failed because of its own issues. I am in their target market and I had never even heard of them until they shut down. Starting any business is extremely challenging, one failing doesn’t imply there was no market.
- aurareturn 3y agoSo there are plenty of alternatives and competitors. Problem solved.
- aaomidi 3y agoExcept it literally had an exact connection to my identity and they had the data to do what they wanted to 4 years down the line when investors demanded more returns. Just…no. This is giving me vibes of the FBI “secure” phones. Fuck that.