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“If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product”

https://alanberg.com/if-youre-not-paying-for-the-product-you-are-the-product-podcast-transcript/

heh, you should see it now - they’ve expanded the features.

i’ll take a look at the controversy, thanks.

edit: skimmed it, looks like contrived controversy to me - a rather unprofessional software reviewer that isn’t willing to engage with their subject? no thanks… but to each their own.

We appreciate you, ignore those downvotes lol, you’re still getting upvotes.

It’s only $108/yr for unlimited searches, if you actually need that many. I’m a retired software engineer and search all the time, so I just went with the unlimited plan, but most people don’t actually search more than 300 times a month.

“If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product”

https://alanberg.com/if-youre-not-paying-for-the-product-you-are-the-product-podcast-transcript/

edt: also, you do get what you pay for. the search results are dramatically different - it’s easy to do a test search and compare the results.

Well, it’s only $108/yr for unlimited searches.

And I used to use search engines professionally for work (think potentially hundereds of searches per day, sometimes), so it’s easy for me to justify paying for quality.

But according the data, most regular folk won’t search more than 300 times per month. Some days you might search more, some you might search less, you know?

Wrong, retired software engineer here.

Some people use search for more than finding recipes and google has been sucking at professional search for a while now, as has been repeatedly reported at Hacker News

Awesome, that’s exactly the type of feedback from a professional that I was looking for - I feel almost exactly the same.

Other than I feel a little bit fanboy-ish now lol.

Indeed, similarly it is fine to ignore the downvotes in this post lol.

asklemmy isn’t news.ycombinator, afterall.

After using the trial for a month and reaching the limit, i decided to pay for the $108/yr unlimited searches.

Kagi did statistical analysis before assigning pricing (it was a long process that they would update us on while they gave us leniency on the quotas). They found that 300 per month was the sweet spot for a lot of regular people that might only search a few times a week or others that might only occasionally do deep dives.

edit: fixed an error, but also adding: no, i exclusively use kagi now on all my devices. give it a test run, it is dramatically different from ddg and googhell

I am in the same boat - Lemmy is like filtering down /all, which is nice for discovering new things, but in Reddit it is pretty nice to just accumulate things as you discover them and be spared the sometimes painful noise.

One of the best things that you can do for your mental health is to excise negative influences in your life. I’m a fence sitter, so not much blocking to do on our side.

If you don’t want an echo chamber, maybe you should start chatting with homeless or mentally ill people on the streets instead of living high-and-mighty on the internet.

How many orphans? How many families destroyed? How much oral history lost? How much more will we ignore the UN?

That was a breath of fresh air to see a cross-platform client - have downloaded it and will check it out as soon as i can.

Gotta limit my social media intake otherwise I get bad headaches these days.

Cool, I will check these out - thanks for the suggestions!

I almost did because of hexbear.net.

I swear, we need instance tagging so that people can tag their instances as “right-leaning”, “left-leaning”, or “moderate” and let users just pre-emptively block wide swaths of the fediverse for themselves.

Ahh, what an emotional rollercoaster - ok, so noted.

Memmy seems relatively decent, only missing maybe one or two features that I’ve noticed in my few weeks on lemmy.

Bwaha, thank you fellow human!

Thanks All!

Ok, thanks!

I’m using Memmy, so I’ll try to login on the web someday and get that server instance blocked. (Presuming we are running v19+, not sure)