• TrackenDaKracken@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      For only 300 searches, that’s 10 searches a day. I do probably 50 to 100 searches per day.

      So, it’s really $10 a month.

      I might pay $5 a month for unlimited but I’m not sure about that. Because, you know they’ll raise the price if they get successful enough. And, then it’s just a constant march to more enshittification.

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        1 day ago

        They offer a genuinely good product and I think it’s important to support companies that sell a good product rather than their customers’ info.

        I paid $5 for a couple of years but eventually stopped because I kept running out of searches after a few weeks. $10 a month for a search engine is excessive but 300 searches a month is too limiting.

      • ohshit604@lemmy.halstead.host
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        2 days ago

        I pay per search using their APi and my SearXNG instance, it’s like ¢0.03 per search which I capped to $5 a month, we’re currently on the 23rd of October and I owe them a whopping $2.03, I usually don’t hit that $5 limit.

        I only wish they weren’t an American company.

        • IlCaviale@lemmy.world
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          So let me get this straight. Not only it’s closed source and SaaS but you guys are paying for your data to be stored on US based servers that are vulnerable to the patriot act? You’re paying for that privilege?

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      21 hours ago

      Yeah, and here 5 bucks is more or less the ~110% of the incomes of most here and in a lot of parts of the world. Also, even for those that have not so bad wages, it’s still sort of a 5% to 10% of their incomes.

      For me, i.e., it’s much more because I’m unemployed (because of all of the AI crysis, I’m music producer and in my area it hurts so much).

      You don’t notice it, but you live in a privilege bubble and speak bullshit from your high horse while most of us are trying to find out how to survive with less than 100 USD a month while the basic food basket is more than 500 USD.