• nyakojiru@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Pay for search? There should be another approach… at this rate will be paying for every single thing we do on internet and navigating properly would require a bunch of money .

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      1 year ago

      Development costs money, servers cost money, and use of other providers APIs to assist in providing results costs money.

      Paying a monthly service fee to not have the company sell your data under the guise of “free” sounds quite reasonable.

      I find some features useful like deranking domains. This can be used to remove those spammy StackOverflow clones.

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        Paying a monthly service fee to not have the company sell your data under the guise of “free” sounds quite reasonable.

        How do you know they don’t make you pay and still sell your data to get even more profit? Because no company who said they’re not evil was ever evil?

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          This is unnecessarily defeatist. Plenty of businesses open and thrive without abusing their users trust. Yes, Google and a lot of other major technology companies have a history of abusing user trust with their data practices, but these companies were heavily focused on rapid growth and monetization. Rapid growth is not an incentive for every company.

          If we’re going down this route of distrusting everyone, how do you know there isn’t a Lemmy instance running right now that’s collecting data with the intent to sell?

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            This is unnecessarily defeatist.

            Why defeatist? I didn’t say it doesn’t matter. I think that many, if not most, corporations are evil and you shouldn’t trust a single word they say unless you are able to independently verify it.

            how do you know there isn’t a Lemmy instance running right now that’s collecting data with the intent to sell?

            I don’t, but I also don’t put a lot of sellable information on Lemmy, I rather link to my own sites, where some of them have a CC-BY-SA license. I know that everything I put on the internet is basically free game for evil capitalists.

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        Oh, there’s a third way. Like DuckDuckGo & Qwant for example. Just have sponsored ads unrelated to you, or ads related to the specific search only (Without detailing your actual search terms to the one buying the ads) and selected companies in such “store” articles results.

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          User choice in the form of multiple tiers would be ideal. I might or might not pay to remove non-creepy ads depending on how they’re presented.