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One of the best things about paid business model for search is that it aligns incentives and decreases the risk of data mining as the business makes money throu
by freediver 3y ago
One of the best things about paid business model for search is that it aligns incentives and decreases the risk of data mining as the business makes money through subscriptions, without any need for ads/selling data.
- kiicia 3y agoLike all the companies that realized that quietly selling highly targetable user data is more profitable than their actual services? See all the "DNA analysis" companies selling data left and right
- Nullabillity 3y agoDoing one doesn't prevent them from doing the other. It gives them more data about you to sell, while limiting the dataset to gullible rich people who think that you can capitalism yourself out of the problems of capitalism (the prime advertising target demographic).
- freediver 3y agoBut what is the incentive?
- Nullabillity 3y agoMoney? You are the one claiming that Kagi is somehow special, trustworthy, and immune to the same influences that drags down everyone else.