• 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip
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    https://kagi.com/

    it is paid. if you pay, you are a customer. if you get it “for free”, you are the merchandise that is being sold and the merchandise is not really expected to complain.

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      I’m not casting aspersions on kagi, I’ve heard nothing but good things about them, but I don’t agree with the idea that paying means you’re not the merchandise. Once a company gets greedy enough, with few enough competitors, you’ll be both the customer and the merchandise.

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        I’ve heard nothing but good things about them

        Here’s a negative then: AI summaries are on all tiers. That means you’re paying/subsidizing them, even if you don’t use them.

        If they offered tiers without AI summaries (with a lower price due to the loss of a so-called “feature”) then we can talk

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        Once a company gets greedy enough

        once a thing happens, you reevaluate and choose the best decision at that time, that is how life works. i am talking about today 🤷‍♂️

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          Recent history shows that people are realy terrible at reavaluating their choices when companies go deep into enshitification.

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            wtf is this discussion?

            • hey, i have problem with shitty service x
            • you may want to try service y, because it is not shitty
            • but the service y may become shitty in the future and i will for some strange reason not be able to leave, here is my phony outrage!