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Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

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Re: Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

#41
post #20

Killer feature. It would be awesome to have some plugin or userscript to auto-swap the e-begging scammy link for an Archive link instead.

Is asking for money for your work begging? That's interesting take.

Assuming an actual journalist wrote the piece, and it's not some stitch together, half-slop, half-cognitive noise-ridden piece of crap, like, you know, about 80% of all content behind a paywall.

Re: Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

#42

I would pay for Brave or Kagi for like $2-3 per month if one of them supported private payments(actually that's exactly what Brave costs). Paying should get you more privacy not less. I'm not paying for Kagi because it's expensive and also doesn't support private payments and Brave has better UI for me. Brave blocks their own ads while not supporting private payments and it doesn't let you use the search premium in V…

Not sure what you mean by "private payments" but Kagi accepts Bitcoin: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/plans/payment-methods.html

Re: Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

#43
post #23
post #3

I've been enjoying Kagi for the last couple years. Even as LLMs slurp up most of the internet and replace search I think Kagi is still useful. Reddit has recently blocked access to old reddit without an account and the ability to filter out stuff like that is useful.

I can still access old.reddit.com from my country/region

It is just people without accounts who are being blocked, and maybe it is regional?

Re: Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

#44
post #13
post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wish they put more effort into Kagi news. Feels very barebones but has a lot of potential.

What do you feel is missing for a free news offering? I don’t personally like it all that much, because it feels like it’s missing the depth I like in well-written reporting, but for those who just want a quick overview of topics once a day, it seems to work pretty well, no?

There are some defects like what does this mean?

> dir="auto" rather than inheriting the story's direction: quotes are reproduced verbatim, so a Hebrew story routinely carries an English one. Inheriting rtl left its closing punctuation stranded at the start of the line (KNEWS-453). -->

https://news.kagi.com/s/3gskhn

Re: Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

#45
While this is a nice feature, needing an account (nevermind paying) to then only get a meta search engine will prevent me from ever using it.

I already spread my searches across at least four different engines (Bing, Ecosia, Startpage & Yandex), so no single provider has a complete profile of all my searches.

I certainly won't be paying to hand over my data.

Re: Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

#46

I would pay for Brave or Kagi for like $2-3 per month if one of them supported private payments(actually that's exactly what Brave costs). Paying should get you more privacy not less. I'm not paying for Kagi because it's expensive and also doesn't support private payments and Brave has better UI for me. Brave blocks their own ads while not supporting private payments and it doesn't let you use the search premium in V…

Depends on how private you want to be, but you can pay Kagi with Bitcoin[1] and use that to buy privacy pass tokens and access it through Tor.[2] It’s not complete privacy, but it decouples the account from the searches.

[1] https://help.kagi.com/kagi/plans/payment-methods.html

[2] https://help.kagi.com/kagi/privacy/tor.html

Re: Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

#47
post #5

Hmmm, so if you are looking for some news item, you'll only find AI-written clickbait articles covered in pop-up ads, rather than any news sites that employ journalists?

That's why it's a choice. If you weren't going to sign up to a site then it's just a pure degradation of experience to see links you can't use.

Re: Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

#48
post #5

Hmmm, so if you are looking for some news item, you'll only find AI-written clickbait articles covered in pop-up ads, rather than any news sites that employ journalists?

Easy to block / downrank known slop sites from Kagi: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/slopstop.html

Re: Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

#49

That should have been an option in Google since the first paywall was put up.

Google even has/had a rule against cloaking (the practice of serving search engines a different version of the page from the one visitors get).

This started with expertsexchange:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3182198

but unlike that stack overflow predecessor that attempted to build itself as a paywalled business, newspapers successfully strongarmed Google, at least in the EU, by arguing against Google monopolistic powers so it's unlikely that Google would dare put them in the shitlist.

Re: Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

#50
post #10

This makes sense to me as a Kagi user. The chance that I'm going to subscribe to read an article I found via a search is zero.

If they had a "here is what I'm currently subscribed to" that might be valuable. Everybody should subscribe to the local news paper - to get local news. Things that matter to them that they won't hear about. (Odds are you the reader do not live in the same city as me and so have no interest in who is on my local school board - but I'm trying to figure out who to vote for and need more information than I can find).

However tracking that is tricky at best.

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