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I find it kind of hilarious that a paid search engine is highlighting paid articles to help their users avoid them.
by yunohn 3y ago
I find it kind of hilarious that a paid search engine is highlighting paid articles to help their users avoid them.
- Grimburger 3y agoMany top 10 searches are paywalled and a waste of time clicking on, this seems like exactly the sort of thing people want from a search engine?
- arghwhat 3y agoWhy? There's nothing wrong with paying for something (including some news sites), and when I search for a topic I'm looking for something I can actually read. Knowing that a link will get me nowhere without the credit card is useful.
- janosett 3y agoYou’re paying them to rank and collect information from things on the web for you. People can’t subscribe to everything and it’s nice as a user of a search engine to know if it’s a requirement.
- omnicognate 3y agoIt doesn't say anything about avoiding them. It's just indicating that they are (potentially) paywalled. To a user willing to pay Kagi for a better search experience that may well be seen as a mark that those articles are more likely to be worth reading.
- shinryuu 3y agoDown the road I see a potential bundle / partnership :).
- q0uaur 3y agowe really need a better way of paying for content. There's some attempts going around of browsers or extensions paying sites, but the ones i've seen felt kinda scammy. i'd love some service where i can put in $20 a month, and it gets split up among the sites i've visited, with options to give bigger shares or exclude sites completely. probably not gonna happen for a while though, having to set up something to receive payments with is just too much trouble for the small personal blogs etc. that have the most interesting content.
- freeAgent 3y agoScroll used to basically do this, but then it was acquired by Twitter, lobotomized, and turned into a Twitter Blue feature. After that I gave up on it.
- carlosjobim 3y agoHonestly, I think a service like Kagi (together with their Orion browser) would be best suited to set up a service like this. I've been thinking for some time about exactly the idea you're proposing. The interface could be so simple: a button in your browser you click to donate to the current open tab. That button turns into a pay button if you've opened a page that demands payment. And the page could specify how much it costs.
- freediver 3y agoWe would love to do this, and we are waiting for the right technology to do so!
- plagiarist 3y agoI'd use a service like that as long as this removes all advertising and third-party analytics from the site as well.
- krageon 3y agoPayments online are a giant nightmare pit because the US finance world is very very scared of sex work. As long as that doesn't get solved, I don't see easily accessible and distributed payments working in a way that doesn't involve hoops most folks don't want to jump through (i.e. sending in ID to some corp that will definitely leak it a week later or cryptocurrency).
- freediver 3y ago> help their users avoid them Or draw attention to content that may be better?